Discrimination Allegations concerning the persistence of provisions in North Irelands’ domestic 01/04/2015 United Kingdom against women; legislation relating to abortion which restrict women and right to health and girls’ JAL of Great Britain Health; Torture; physical integrity under international human rights law. According to the information and Northern Violence against received, under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and the 1945 Criminal Ireland women; Justice (Northern Ireland) Act, women or those who help a woman to have an abortion, may face life imprisonment. Furthermore, the 1967 Abortion Act does not apply in Northern Ireland. Abortion is only acceptable when there is a risk to the physical or mental health of the woman or existing children in the family, and abnormalities that could lead to a child being After the “seriously handicapped”. Ministry of Justice announced in December 2013 their intention to prepare a consultation document to review abortion laws in Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission was granted leave to pursue a judicial review of these laws on 2 February 2015, the next stage of this legal challenge being a three-day hearing in June 2015. Arbitrary Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of an environmental civil society activist in 02/04/2015 Kazakhstan detention; relation to the exercise of his rights to freedom of association and of opinion and JUA Freedom of expression. According to the information received, on 7 March 2015, Mr. Saken expression; Baikenov, a human rights defender from the Antigeptil human rights movement, Freedom of which works on environment related issues, was arrested by officers of the National peaceful assembly Security Committee in the city of Almaty and taken to Astana by plane the same day. and of association; On 9 March 2015, Saryarkinskiy District Court No. 2 in Astana charged him with Human rights to social, national, tribal, racial, class or under Article “incitement religious discord” defenders; 174 of the Criminal Code, an offence punishable by 12 to 20 years of imprisonment. Mr. Baikenov is reportedly to serve a two-month pre-trail detention period pending investigation. It is alleged that the arrest of Mr. Baikenov and the subsequent charges brought against him may be linked to a post he wrote on his Facebook page.
01/04/2015 JAL United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Discrimination against women; Health; Torture; Violence against women; Allegations concerning the persistence of provisions in North Irelands’ domestic legislation relating to abortion which restrict women and girls’ right to health and physical integrity under international human rights law. According to the information received, under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and the 1945 Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Act, women or those who help a woman to have an abortion, may face life imprisonment. Furthermore, the 1967 Abortion Act does not apply in Northern Ireland. Abortion is only acceptable when there is a risk to the physical or mental health of the woman or existing children in the family, and abnormalities that could lead to a child being “seriously handicapped”. After the Ministry of Justice announced in December 2013 their intention to prepare a consultation document to review abortion laws in Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission was granted leave to pursue a judicial review of these laws on 2 February 2015, the next stage of this legal challenge being a three-day hearing in June 2015. 02/04/2015 JUA Kazakhstan Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of an environmental civil society activist in relation to the exercise of his rights to freedom of association and of opinion and expression. According to the information received, on 7 March 2015, Mr. Saken Baikenov, a human rights defender from the Antigeptil human rights movement, which works on environment related issues, was arrested by officers of the National Security Committee in the city of Almaty and taken to Astana by plane the same day. On 9 March 2015, Saryarkinskiy District Court No. 2 in Astana charged him with “incitement to social, national, tribal, racial, class or religious discord” under Article 174 of the Criminal Code, an offence punishable by 12 to 20 years of imprisonment. Mr. Baikenov is reportedly to serve a two-month pre-trail detention period pending investigation. It is alleged that the arrest of Mr. Baikenov and the subsequent charges brought against him may be linked to a post he wrote on his Facebook page.
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