Date
Type
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
OTH 7/2015
23/10/2015 Other
JAL
Adequate
housing;
Extreme
poverty; Haiti;
Health; Water
and Sanitation;
25/02/2016
Letter sent in follow-up to the allegation letter transmitted to the United Nations
Secretary General on 25 September 2014 concerning the cholera outbreak in Haiti in
2010. The letter expresses concern about the inability of the victims of the cholera
outbreak to vindicate their rights and to obtain access to a remedy for the harms suffered
to date. The letter urges the United Nations to provide the victims with access to a
transparent, independent and impartial mechanism to review and decide on their claims
in order to ensure adequate reparation. The first letter transmitted on 25 September 2014
is included in A/HRC/28/85, see case no. HTI 3/2014.
IRN 16/2015
29/10/2015 Iran (Islamic
JAL
Republic of)
Independence of
judges and
lawyers; Iran;
Summary
executions;
Torture;
Allegations concerning the execution of a Kurdish man on charges of moharebeh
(enmity against God) in Iran. On 26 August 2015, Mr. Behrouz Alkhani, a 30-year-old
Kurdish man, was executed while awaiting the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal. He
had reportedly been held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer for over a
year prior to his execution. Mr. Alkhani was arrested in January 2010 in West
Azerbaijan and, in 2011, convicted and sentenced to death on charges of “effective
collaboration with PJAK” (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) and “enmity against God
(moharebeh) for his alleged role in the assassination of the Prosecutor of Khoy, in the
West Azerbaijan province. Following his execution, authorities have reportedly refused
to return his body to his family for burial.
26/04/2016
A/HRC/32/53
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