Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply KHM 3/2012 04/05/2012 Cambodia JAL Cambodia; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; 27/06/2012 Allegations of restrictions to the enjoyment of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, opinion and expression which were reportedly faced by organizers and participants to the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples‟ Forum 2012 (ACSC/APF) under the theme “Transforming ASEAN into a People Centered Community”. According to the information received, following the approval by the Ministry of Interior to hold the conference, issued on the eve of the event, the management of the hotel where the conference was scheduled to take place, allegedly acting upon instructions by the authorities, imposed a number of restrictions on the ACSC/APF Organizing Committee. These include the removal of pictures displayed by a participating NGO from Myanmar on the wall of its stand in the exhibition hall; the request to submit to the hotel management any video or picture to be shown during the documentary films screening session; and the prohibition of four thematic parallel workshops, which were allegedly considered as “politically sensitive”. IRN 9/2012 04/05/2012 Iran (Islamic JUA Republic of) Independence of judges and lawyers; Iran; Summary executions; Torture; Alleged death sentence and imminent execution on charges of moharebeh (enmity against God). According to the information received, Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, dual national of Iran and Canada, was arrested on 24 May 2008 while visiting his mother in Iran. He was subsequently placed in solitary confinement in Evin prison for 18 months without any legal representation. While in pre-trial detention, he was allegedly forced to confess to the charges brought against him. In November 2009, Mr. Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death following an allegedly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court. Pursuant to article 186 of the Penal Code of Iran, he was convicted of enmity against God (moharebeh) relating to alleged espionage and cooperation with the banned People‟s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The evidence used as a basis for his conviction consisted of a confession made under duress. On 7 November 2009, the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence. A/HRC/21/49 35