Relatives, and civil society actors working on their behalf
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-093-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 30.375321
Longitude: 69.3451159999999
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Pakistan
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- July 2019
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
recent testimonies indicating that the authorities have exerted pressure on relatives of victims of enforced disappearances (see A/HRC/WGEID/116/1, Annex III) to persuade them not to pursue their cases before the Working Group (A/HRC/42/40, para. 81).
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
recent testimonies indicating that the authorities have exerted pressure on relatives of victims of enforced disappearances (see A/HRC/WGEID/116/1, Annex III) to persuade them not to pursue their cases before the Working Group (A/HRC/42/40, para. 81).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- 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
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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