This is a communication of the UN Working Group on enforced disappearances and two UN Special Rapporteurs (on human rights defenders and independence of judges and lawyers) to the Government of India over the alleged refusal to renew the passport of human rights lawyer Parvez Imroz since 2004 in an attempt to restrict his work in relation to investigations of enforced disappearances.
Topics: denial of right to travel, denial of freedom of movement, attacks on human rights defenders, intimidation, violation fo free expression, violation of freedom of opinion, non-response of Indian Government, impunity
Terms: Parvez Imroz, denial of passport, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
Mr. Imroz was previously the subject of an urgent appeal sent by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on 17 January 2012, see A/HRC/20/30, case number IND 23/2011, to which no response has yet been received; an urgent appeal sent by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression on 20 November 2008, see IND 31/2008, for which a response was received on 24 June 2009; an allegation letter sent by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on 8 July 2008, see IND 18/2008, for which a response was received on 19 March 2009; and urgent appeals sent by the then Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on 14 September 2006, see IND 29/2006, and 1 May 2006, see IND 16/2006.
October 2015
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