A/HRC/23/51 - Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

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Date
Type
11/02/2013
JAL
Case No
Country Mandate(s) Summary <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> allegation transmitted Reply
IND 1/2013
India
Independence <strong>of</strong>
judges and lawyers;
Summary executions;
Terrorism; Torture;
Alleged execution after proceedings that did not comply fully with fair trial
and due process guarantees. According to <strong>the</strong> information received, Mr.
Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani national aged 25, was executed in India on 21
November 2012. He was sentenced to death by a special court in 2010, for
his alleged involvement in <strong>the</strong> Mumbai attacks that took place on 26
November 2008, and reportedly resulted in 150 persons killed and
approximately 250 individuals injured. It was reported that Mr. Kasab was
found guilty <strong>of</strong> more than 80 charges, including murder, committing acts <strong>of</strong>
terrorism and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. The legal proceedings
against him allegedly did not comply with international human rights law
regarding fair trial and due process guarantees.
12/02/2013
A/<strong>HRC</strong>/<strong>23</strong>/<strong>51</strong>
12/02/2013
AL
BWA 1/2013
Botswana
Indigenous peoples;
Allegations concerning <strong>the</strong> situation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Basarwa and Bakgalagadi
indigenous peoples in <strong>the</strong> Central Kalahari Game Reserve. According to <strong>the</strong>
information received, approximately 500 to 600 Basarwa and Bakgalagadi
indigenous residents live in five communities within <strong>the</strong> Central Kalahari
Game Reserve. Approximately 2,200 to 2,400 Basarwa and Bankgaladi
people who were former residents <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Reserve, but have been evicted
from <strong>the</strong>ir traditional lands, now live in <strong>the</strong> resettlement sites <strong>of</strong> Xere, New
Xade and Kaudwane. In <strong>the</strong> Roy Sesana and O<strong>the</strong>rs v. The Attorney
General decision <strong>of</strong> 2006, <strong>the</strong> <strong>High</strong> Court <strong>of</strong> Botswana held that <strong>the</strong>
Government‘s refusal to allow <strong>the</strong> applicants in <strong>the</strong> case to enter <strong>the</strong> Reserve
unless <strong>the</strong>y were issued with permits was unlawful and unconstitutional.
However, <strong>the</strong> Government has allegedly maintained <strong>the</strong> position that only
<strong>the</strong> 243 applicants who were named in <strong>the</strong> Sesana case can return to <strong>the</strong>
Reserve without obtaining a temporary entry permit. Fur<strong>the</strong>r, indigenous
residents in <strong>the</strong> Reserve have allegedly been criminally prosecuted, arrested,
harassed, beaten and intimidated by police and park <strong>of</strong>ficials for engaging in
<strong>the</strong>ir traditional subsistence hunting and ga<strong>the</strong>ring activities.
22/02/2013