Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply MUS 2/2015 14/08/2015 Mauritius AL Health; Alleged retrogressive measures in Mauritius regarding long-term harm-reduced services 22/04/2016 for people who use drugs. According to the information received, harm-reduction services implemented since 2006 are being drastically reduced in terms of coverage and accessibility, putting people who use drugs at unnecessary and avoidable risk of HIV and blood-borne infections. Amendments include halting induction of new patients; decreased hours of opioid substitution therapy (OST) distribution, new distribution vehicles in front of police stations and mandatory provisions for non-governmental organizations to disclose the identity of the programmes’ users. Measures have been taken without consultation with expert stakeholders and have disregarded harmreduction services’ positive impact in decreasing HIV incidence, criminality rates and in improving the physical and mental health of their users. MYS 3/2015 18/08/2015 Malaysia JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; 30/03/2016 Alleged violations of the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Malaysia, including the blocking of the website “Sarawak Report” and harassment of its journalists, as well as the suspension of two other news outlets and arrest of peaceful protestors. According to the information received, on 19 July 2015, the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission allegedly blocked the “Sarawak Report”, an independent news blog, after it had reportedly published documents alleging a financial scandal involving the Malaysian Prime Minister and the State-owned development firm “1Malaysia Development Berhad”. On 4 August 2015, Malaysian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Ms. Clare Rewcastle-Brown, a British journalist who is the founder and editor of the Sarawak Report, pursuant to sections 124B and 124I of the Penal Code and are now reportedly pressing for Ms. Rewcastle-Brown to be placed on Aseanapol and Interpol Red Notice Wanted Lists. Concern is expressed at the use of the Sedition Act of 1948 to arrest, detain and charge human rights activists, for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Malaysia. A/HRC/32/53 103