Said Ali Said Jadad (2015)

Cases

Relevant SG report

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Country Geolocation

Latitude: 21.4735329

Longitude: 55.975413

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UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report

Dates of prior UN action: 11 November 2014; 16 December 2014; 29 January 2015; 30 January 2015

Individual's/organization's activity: a human rights defender advocating for democratic reforms in the country

Type of rights defended

Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?: No

Reported trigger of reprisal: After meeting with the Special Rapporteur during his above- mentioned country visit

Engagement with UN body

Type of attempted engagement

Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials

Dates of mentioned reprisals: 31 October 2014; 10 December 2014; 22 December 2014; 21 January 2015

Reprisal information: Mr. Jadad was reportedly subjected to greater surveillance. On 31 October 2014, while on his way to board a flight to Istanbul to attend a workshop for human rights defenders, Mr. Jadad was stopped, his passport confiscated and informed of a travel ban issued against him by border control officers at Muscat International Airport. On 10 December, members of the Oman Royal Police and the Internal Security Forces reportedly arrested Mr. Jadad at his house in Salalah. He was released on 22 December 2014 after his son’s passport was confiscated as a guarantee, but rearrested on 21 January 2015, reportedly on charges of, inter alia, undermining the prestige of the State (A/HRC/28/85, case OMN 3/2014, and A/HRC/29/50, cases OMN 5/2014 and OMN 1/2015)

Types of reprisals suffered

Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?: No

Further case development: In a press release of 30 January 2015, mandate holders urged the Government to release Mr. Jadad and to guarantee that no human rights defender in the country would be subjected to any form of reprisal

Government response content: In response to the second communication and the press release, on 20 February 2015, the Government rejected the allegations, explaining that Mr. Jadad had been arrested not for having met with the Special Rapporteur but because of violation of laws and regulations (A/HRC/29/50, case OMN 5/2014).

Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?: No

Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?: No

Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?: No

Follow up information provided in SG report 0: 43.The case of Said Ali Said Jadad, a human rights defender advocating for democratic reforms in Oman, who had reportedly become the subject of intimidation and reprisalsafter he had met with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association during his visit to Oman in 2014, was mentioned in my previousreport (see A/HRC/30/29, para.34). In theirobservations on communications reports to the twenty-ninth and thirty-firstsessionsof the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteurs on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, andon the situation of human rights defenders,respectively, regretted that no response had been received to the joint communication dated 29 January 2015 and urged the Government to fully cooperate with theirmandates (see A/HRC/29/25/Add.3, para.577, and A/HRC/31/55/Add.1, para.536).At the time of finalization of the present report, no government response had been received to the above-mentioned communication.

Was this case followed up by a UN body? 0