Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply RUS 7/2013 27/09/2013 Russian AL Federation Health; Allegations concerning the treatment of drug users living with HIV and tuberculosis. 26/11/2013 According to the information received, Tuberculosis Clinic No. 2, at 37 Kamskaya St., Yekaterinburg made no arrangements to ensure effective tuberculosis treatment for drug using patients living with HIV. The treatment programmes offered by the clinic failed to incorporate procedures and practices that address the special needs of drug using patients. It is reported that the administration of the clinic retaliated against patients, who complained about the clinic, by dismissing them before the completion of their treatment. It is further reported that harm-reduction measures, such as opioid substitution therapy, continued to be unavailable at the clinic and that the clinic failed to provide effective HIV/tuberculosis co-infection treatment. Tuberculosis Clinic No. 2 was the subject of a previous communication sent on 25 June 2010 (A/HRC/17/25/Add.1, para 272-283). KGZ 2/2013 30/09/2013 Kyrgyz JAL Republic Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged proposed legal amendments, which would significantly impinge on the right 22/11/2013 to freedom of association and the right to defend human rights. According to the information received, a draft law on “non-commercial organisations fulfilling the role of foreign agents” that classifies as foreign agents as organisations that receive external funding and participate in “political activities”, had been tabled for public discussion at the Kyrgyz Parliament. It is alleged that, should the provisions become law, they would restrict the right to freedom of association and the work of human rights defenders and civil society. A/HRC/25/74 97