Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply MWI 2/2015 09/02/2015 Malawi JUA Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of threats, intimidation and acts of defamation against two human rights defenders and their organizations. According to the information received, Mr. MacDonald Sembereka, National Coordinator of the Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV/AIDS (MANERELA+), a network of religious leaders aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination against persons living with HIV/AIDS, and Mr. Gift Trapence, Executive Director of the Centre for the Development of People(CEDEP), a human rights organization working on the rights of groups at risk, received anonymous threatening phone calls as a result of their legitimate human rights activities and their role in the organization of peaceful demonstrations which took place throughout the country on 13 January 2015. The premises of CEDEP and MANERELA+ were broken into in 2014 and in the beginning of 2015 respectively and computers belonging to CEDEP were stolen. Mr. Sembereka, Mr. Trapence, and their respective organizations became the subject of a smear media campaign. Mr. Sembereka was the subject of a previous communication sent on 10 October 2011, see A/HRC/19/44, case no. MWI 4/2011. MDA 1/2015 10/02/2015 Republic of JUA Moldova Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Freedom of religion; Alleged violation of the rights to freedom of religion or belief, freedom of association, 30/03/2015 and freedom of expression of the members of two spiritual associations. According to the information received, in December 2013 and January 2014, Buiucani Court and Chisinau’s Commercial Court received a complaint accusing Falun Dafa and Qigong Falun Gong Moldova, two associations that share the same beliefs and practice of Chinese spiritual discipline, of being extremist organizations, requesting their emblem consisting of one large and four small “sauwastika” symbols be banned and both associations dissolved. On 20 January 2014, Buiucani Court issued a decision banning the organizations’ emblem and, on 18 April 2014, Chisinau’s Commercial Court ordered the dissolution and liquidation of both organizations. Appeals lodged before the Chisinau Court of Appeal, in April and July 2014, by the two organizations, as well as Moldova’s Ministry of Justice, were dismissed and, on 28 January 2015, the Supreme Court ordered the inclusion of the associations’ emblem in the State Registry of Extremist Materials. The Supreme Court is set to deliberate on the dissolution of Falun Dafa and Qigong Falun Gong Moldova on 11 February 2015. A/HRC/29/50 52 Date Type