5 HRDs who intended to cooperate with CAT
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2019-072-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2019
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 21.00789
Longitude: -10.940835
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Mauritania
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Treaty Bodies: CAT
- Dates of prior UN action
- July 2018
- 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, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
intended to cooperate with the Committee during the review of Mauritania
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: CAT
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
reports indicating that, on the pretext of checking their visas, the authorities detained five human rights defenders who intended to cooperate with the Committee during the review of Mauritania
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Travel restriction
- 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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