Date Type 27/08/2012 JAL 28/08/2012 UA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply UKR 1/2012 Ukraine Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Alleged killing of environmental rights defender. According to the information received, on 1 August 2012, Mr. Volodymyr Honcharenko was driving to his summer home when he was blocked by another car. Allegedly, several unidentified men descended from the vehicle and proceeded to attack him. Sources indicate that Mr. Honcharenko was transported to Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, where he died of his injuries on 4 August. Mr. Honcharenko was the director of the Ukrainian social movement ―For Citizens‘ Right to a Safe Environment‖, an organization which protects and promotes ecological rights and highlights issues related to water pollution, and radioactive contamination. According to reports, during a press conference held on 27 July 2012, Mr. Honcharenko had revealed information on 180 tonnes of chemically contaminated and radioactive metal waste in the Saksahansk District of Kryvy Rih. It is further alleged that Mr. Honcharenko highlighted the failure of the Ukrainian Government to publish mandatory annual environmental reports since 2005. 08/11/2012 GMB 1/2012 Gambia 28/08/2012 Summary executions; Alleged executions after a moratorium on the death penalty for 27 years. According to the information received, on 19 and 20 August 2012, the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced on television that executions would resume and that by mid-September the execution of death row prisoners would be ―carried out to the letter‖. In the night of 23 to 24 August 2012, seven Gambian nationals, Messrs. Lamin Bo Darboe, Alieu Bah, Lamin Jarju, Dawda Bojang, Abubacarr Yarbo, Abdoulie Sonko, Lamin F. Jammeh, and two Senegalese nationals, Mr. Gibril Bah and Ms. Tabara Samba, were removed from their cells and may have been executed at the Mile Two Central Prison. It is alleged that some of them were convicted on charges of treason and for their political convictions. Moreover, there were 39 individuals on death row, who may be at imminent risk of execution. It is further reported that they were sentenced to death following trials which did not scrupulously observe the fair trial guarantees. A/HRC/22/67 89