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Communications report to session 61 of the Human Rights Council, in the list below, in chronological order, shows communications dating before 01 Jun 2025 to which a reply or an additional reply has been received in the period between 01 Aug 2025 and 31 Jan 2026. Some names of individuals or other information have been rendered anonymous or otherwise unidentifiable.
Date, Country,
Type and
ref. no. of
communication
Mandates Summary Replies received
    22 Aug 2024
    United Republic of Tanzania
    JAL
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • freedom of opinion and expression
Information received concerning threats and harassment of Advocate Boniface Mwabukusi, with the Attorney general allegedly initiating a professional ethics procedure against him and seeking to get him removed by court order from the Roll of Advocates as retaliation for opinions expressed in the course of his professional activities.
Alleged victims: 1
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30 Sep 2025
    22 Jul 2024
    Pakistan
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • religion or belief
Information received concerning allegations of extrajudicial killings, physical assaults, arbitrary detention, and harassment against members of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, and attacks on their places of worship and cemeteries, which appear to be related to the legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of religion or belief.
Alleged victims: 7
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26 Jan 2026 (Ack.)
    22 Apr 2024
    United Republic of Tanzania
    JAL
  • mercenaries
  • business
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • sale of children
  • violence against women and girls
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations committed at North Mara mine, which is an industrial gold mine located in Nyamongo, an area in the Tarime District, Mara Region, in northern Tanzania operated by Barrick in collaboration with SGA Security and Nguvu Moja private security contractors, and owned in partnership with the Tanzanian government. The allegations are regarding human rights abuses committed by security forces, including private security contractors, namely SGA Security and Nguvu Moja and public security forces assigned, and paid, to secure the North Mara mine. The allegations include international humanitarian law and human rights abuses including killings and security-related deaths; assaults, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (including the health and well-being of children, including infants, exposed to tear gas and ‘sound bomb’ attacks and at risk of long-term or permanent injury, and death); arbitrary arrest and detention; violence against women and girls, some of which may amount to international crimes.
Alleged victims: 150
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30 Sep 2025
    17 Apr 2024
    La Plata S.A
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • environment
  • human rights defenders
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • toxics and human rights
Información recibida relación con la situación de escalada de violencia, incluyendo por parte de la fuerza pública, y del uso indebido del derecho penal en contra de defensores ambientales derechos humanos en el marco de consultas ambientales para proyectos mineros. En particular, esta se refiere a las comunidades de Las Pampas y Palo Quemado, cantón Sigchos, Provincia de Cotopaxi en relación con el proyecto minero La Plata - operado por la empresa ecuatoriana La Plata S.A., que es de propiedad de la empresa Toachi Mining Inc, a su vez subsidiaria de la empresa Atico Mining Corporation, ambas con sede en Canadá.
Alleged victims: 10503
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16 Jun 2024
04 Oct 2024
02 Oct 2025
    17 Apr 2024
    Pakistan
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • cultural rights
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • religion or belief
  • torture
Information received concerning the imposition of the death penalty on Mr. Anwar Kenneth for charges of blasphemy, which do not meet the threshold of “most serious crimes” as required under international law when the death penalty is imposed, as well as his prolonged detention on death row. Mr. Kenneth is a former government official who was sentenced to death in 2002, and his appeal against his death sentence is currently before the Supreme Court, with the next hearing scheduled for 18 April 2024.
Alleged victims: 1
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26 Jan 2026 (Ack.)