25/02/2016 JUA 25/02/2016 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted PAK 4/2016 Pakistan Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Terrorism; Alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and charging of a human rights defender. According to the information received, on 16 January 2016, Mr. Saeed Baloch, board member of International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, secretary general of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) and Muttahida Labour Federation and Fishermen’s Cooperative Society (FCS), was summoned for questioning by members of the Rangers, Pakistan’s Paramilitary police force, to Keamari station. On 26 January 2016, he was presented before the Sindh High Court and accused of financially assisting an individual involved in organized crime, and of embezzling fisheries’ funds. The court placed Mr. Baloch under three month of preventative detention under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. The Rangers stated he was arrested on 25 January 2016, however, on 19 January 2016 his family petitioned the Rangers to allow them to visit him, which was denied. RUS 2/2016 Russian Federation Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged liquidation of a human rights non-governmental organization. According to the information received, on 10 February 2016, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the Ministry of Justice’s request for the liquidation of Agora, a prominent non-governmental organization, following a series of investigations in 2015 in relation to the work of the organization. The Ministry accused Agora of, inter alia, conducting political actions with a view to “influencing public opinion”, of publishing critical documents without indicating that their author had been labelled a “foreign agent” organization, and of undertaking efforts to be excluded from the registry of “foreign agents”. The adoption and application of the Law on Introducing Amendments to Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Part Regulating Activities of Non-commercial Organizations which Carry Functions of Foreign Agents was the subject of six previous communications sent on 11 July 2012, see A/HRC/22/67, case no. RUS 5/2012; 13 June 2013, see A/HRC/25/74, case no. RUS 3/2013; 18 December 2013, see A/HRC/26/21, case no. RUS 13/2013; 20 June 2014, see A/HRC/28/85, case no. RUS 5/2014; 14 November 2014, see A/HRC/28/85, case no. RUS 9/2014; and 7 August 2015, see A/HRC/31/79, case no. RUS 4/2015. Reply A/HRC/32/53 84 Date Type