UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/13/22/Add.4 26 February 2010 ENGLISH/FRENCH/RUSSIAN/ SPANISH ONLY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Thirteenth session Agenda item 3 PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya Addendum Responses to the questionnaire on the security ∗ and protection of human rights defenders ∗ The present document is being circulated in the languages of submission only, as it greatly exceeds the word limitations currently imposed by the relevant General Assembly resolutions. GE.10-11602 A/HRC/13/22/Add.4 Page 2 Contents Introduction................................................................................................................................5 I. Questionnaire.........................................................................................................................5 II. Responses received to the questionnaire..............................................................................6 Afghanistan................................................................................................................................6 Albania.......................................................................................................................................8 Algeria .......................................................................................................................................9 Argentina .................................................................................................................................11 Armenia ...................................................................................................................................14 Azerbaijan................................................................................................................................17 Bangladesh...............................................................................................................................21 Belarus .....................................................................................................................................22 Benin........................................................................................................................................22 Bolivia......................................................................................................................................23 Bosnia and Herzegovina..........................................................................................................24 Burundi ....................................................................................................................................26 Cambodia.................................................................................................................................29 China (People’s Republic of)...................................................................................................30 Colombia..................................................................................................................................33 Congo (Republic of the) ..........................................................................................................81 Costa Rica................................................................................................................................82 Côte d’Ivoire............................................................................................................................83 Democratic Republic of the Congo .........................................................................................84 Djibouti....................................................................................................................................85 Estonia .....................................................................................................................................86 Fiji ...........................................................................................................................................87 France ......................................................................................................................................93 Georgia ....................................................................................................................................93 A/HRC/13/22/Add.4 Page 3 Germany .................................................................................................................................. 96 Greece...................................................................................................................................... 97 Guatemala................................................................................................................................ 98 Guyana................................................................................................................................... 112 India....................................................................................................................................... 114 Indonesia................................................................................................................................ 115 Iran (Islamic Republic of)...................................................................................................... 137 Iraq......................................................................................................................................... 138 Jordan .................................................................................................................................... 140 Kenya..................................................................................................................................... 140 Kiribati................................................................................................................................... 140 Kyrgyz Republic.................................................................................................................... 143 Lao People’s Democratic Republic ....................................................................................... 144 Lebanon ................................................................................................................................. 145 Malaysia ................................................................................................................................ 145 Mexico................................................................................................................................... 149 Mongolia................................................................................................................................ 161 Montenegro............................................................................................................................ 163 Nepal...................................................................................................................................... 163 Niger ...................................................................................................................................... 167 Pakistan.................................................................................................................................. 172 Papua New Guinea ................................................................................................................ 172 Paraguay ................................................................................................................................ 173 Peru........................................................................................................................................ 174 Philippines ............................................................................................................................. 178 Republic of Korea.................................................................................................................. 183 Republic of Moldova............................................................................................................. 184 Russian Federation ................................................................................................................ 185 A/HRC/13/22/Add.4 Page 4 Serbia .....................................................................................................................................186 Slovakia .................................................................................................................................189 Slovenia .................................................................................................................................191 Somalia ..................................................................................................................................192 South Africa...........................................................................................................................193 Spain ......................................................................................................................................193 Sri Lanka................................................................................................................................194 Sudan .....................................................................................................................................197