Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply GTM 16/2011 Indigenous 14/10/2011 Guatemala peoples; UA Carta de seguimiento sobre las alegaciones recibidas sobre la propuesta construcción de una cementera en San Juan Sacatepequez. La carta da seguimiento a información llevada a la atención del Relator Especial durante su visita a Guatemala en junio de 2010, y conversaciones que mantuvo en el marco de esa visita con representantes del Gobierno, la empresa Cementos Progreso, S.A., y representantes de las comunidades indígenas afectadas. Las principales alegaciones que han surgido respecto a este proyecto son las siguientes: ha habido una falta de consulta previa adecuada con las comunidades indígenas afectadas; existe una carencia de información completa e imparcial sobre los efectos en la salud y el ambiente que podría generar el proyecto; y se ha generado un ambiente de persecución, violencia y división interna de la comunidades a raíz de la aprobación de este proyecto, lo que supuestamente ha resultado en la muerte de al menos cuatro comunitarios y varios habitantes heridos con armas de fuego. El Relator Especial solicitó información actualizada sobre el proyecto. 12/01/2012 AFG 4/2011 17/10/2011 Afghanistan AL Alleged torture in detention. According to the information received, out of 379 detainees who during the period from October 2010 to August 2011 had been detained in Afghanistan National Police (ANP) detention centres, National Directorate of Security (NDS) facilities, Afghanistan National Army (ANA) detention facilities, Ministry of Justice prisons and juvenile rehabilitation centres, 324 conflict-related detainees were held on suspicion, or were convicted of offences related to the armed conflict. Reportedly, more than two-thirds of 324 conflict-related detainees who were facing charges of committing crimes against the State and national security crimes, were subjected to torture by the NDS officials during prolonged abusive interrogation sessions while blindfolded, for the purpose of obtaining confessions. Reportedly, five children aged between 16 and 17, who had been detained in NDS Counter-Terrorism Department, had been subjected to torture for the purpose of obtaining confessions. Allegedly, at a provincial ANP headquarters in Khost, a 16-year-old child, who was detained on suspicion of membership in Taliban, was subjected to electric shocks and beating until he thumb-printed a confession. Allegedly, NDS interrogators squeezed one child‟s testicles, while threatening another child detainee, aged 16, with sexual assault. Allegedly, the overwhelming majority of conflict-related detainees spent an average of 20 days in detention before being charged and transferred to a Ministry of Justice facility- in excess of the 72 hours statutory limit prescribed in the law. Torture; A/HRC/19/44 95