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UNITED NATIONS E Economic and Social Council Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/2005/101/Add.1 16 March 2005 Original: ENGLISH / FRENCH/ SPANISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-first session Agenda item 17 (b) of the provisional agenda PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Hina Jilani Addendum Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received* *The present document is being circulated in the languages of submission only as it greatly exceeds the page limitations currently imposed by the relevant General Assembly resolutions. GE.05-12965 E/CN.4/2005/101/Add.1 Page 2 Contents Paragraphs Pages Introduction........................................................................................ 1 – 4 4 Algeria................................................................................................ 5 – 20 5 Argentina............................................................................................ 21 – 26 10 Armenia.............................................................................................. 27 – 29 12 Azerbaijan .......................................................................................... 30 – 37 13 Bahrain............................................................................................... 38 – 49 15 Bangladesh......................................................................................... 50 – 64 19 Belarus ............................................................................................... 65 – 77 23 Bolivia................................................................................................ 78 – 79 30 Bosnia and Herzegovina .................................................................... 80 – 81 30 Brazil.................................................................................................. 82 – 91 30 Burundi............................................................................................... 92 – 93 34 Cambodia ........................................................................................... 94 – 95 35 Cameroon........................................................................................... 96 – 97 35 Central African Republic ................................................................... 98 – 99 36 Chad ................................................................................................... 100– 102 36 Chile .................................................................................................. 103 – 108 37 China .................................................................................................. 109 – 138 39 Colombia ........................................................................................... 139 – 216 49 Costa Rica .......................................................................................... 217 – 219 73 Côte d’Ivoire ...................................................................................... 220 – 223 74 Cuba ................................................................................................... 224 – 226 75 Democratic Republic of the Congo.................................................... 227 – 235 76 Ecuador .............................................................................................. 236 – 246 79 Egypt .................................................................................................. 247 – 252 84 Ethiopia .............................................................................................. 253 – 258 86 France................................................................................................. 259 – 267 88 Guatemala .......................................................................................... 268 – 287 92 Haiti.................................................................................................... 288 – 291 100 Honduras ............................................................................................ 292 – 300 101 India ................................................................................................... 301 – 308 104 Indonesia ............................................................................................ 309 – 319 107 Iran (Islamic Republic of) ................................................................. 320 – 335 111 Iraq .................................................................................................... 336 – 337 116 Israel................................................................................................... 338 – 340 117 Jamaica............................................................................................... 341 – 343 118 Kazakhstan......................................................................................... 344 – 345 119 Kyrgyzstan ......................................................................................... 346 – 348 120 Lebanon.............................................................................................. 349 – 351 121 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya..................................................................... 352 – 353 122 Malaysia............................................................................................. 354 – 364 122 Maldives ............................................................................................ 365 – 367 127 Mauritania .......................................................................................... 368 – 370 128 E/CN.4/2005/101/Add.1 Page 3 Contents (continued) Paragraphs Pages Mexico ............................................................................................... 371 – 394 129 Morocco ............................................................................................. 395 – 401 137 Myanmar ........................................................................................... 402 – 403 139 Nepal .................................................................................................. 404 – 414 140 Nigeria................................................................................................ 415 – 416 144 Pakistan .............................................................................................. 417 – 423 144 Peru .................................................................................................... 424 – 433 146 Philippines ......................................................................................... 434 – 437 151 Republic of Korea ............................................................................. 438 – 440 153 Russian Federation............................................................................. 441 – 466 154 Rwanda .............................................................................................. 467 – 468 164 Saudi Arabia....................................................................................... 469 – 475 165 Serbia and Montenegro .................................................................... 476– 480 167 Sri Lanka............................................................................................ 481 – 483 169 Sudan.................................................................................................. 484 – 505 170 Syrian Arab Republic......................................................................... 506 – 517 177 Thailand ............................................................................................. 518 – 529 181 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia................................... 530 – 532 185 Tunisia................................................................................................ 533 – 554 186 Turkey ................................................................................................ 555 – 578 194 Turkmenistan ..................................................................................... 579 – 581 202 United States of America .................................................................. 582 – 584 203 Uzbekistan.......................................................................................... 585 – 599 205 Venezuela........................................................................................... 600 – 601 210 Viet Nam............................................................................................ 602 – 613 210 Zambia .............................................................................................. 614 – 617 214 Zimbabwe........................................................................................... 618 – 628 215 E/CN.4/2005/101/Add.1 Page 4 Introduction 1. The present document is submitted by the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Hina Jilani, to the Commission on Human Rights pursuant to Commission resolution 2003/64. The document provides summaries of the communications on specific cases addressed by the Special Representative to Governments, as well as summaries of the replies by Governments that she has received and her observations thereon. 2. In the past, such information had been included in an annex. Following up on a practice adopted in her report to the Commission at its fifty-ninth session, the information on specific cases raised by the Special Representative over the year is now published in an addendum to her main report to the Commission at its sixty-first session (E/CN.4/2005/101). 3.