Guyana: Visits & Communications
Correspondence from 2004
The record of correspondence for 2004 is excerpted from the official United Nations report, E/CN.4/2004/7/Add.1.
Communication sent
On 20 October 2003, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication to the Government of Guyana in connection with the case of Yohance Douglas, a 17-year-old who was reportedly shot dead on 1 March 2003 when a police patrol intercepted the vehicle in which he and four other young men were travelling, in the vicinity of Sheriff and Duncan Streets, Georgetown. The police allegedly opened fire on the youths and discharged a number of rounds in an indiscriminate manner, which reportedly resulted in the death of Douglas and injuries to others, and notably inflicting a grievous bodily injury to Ronson Grey, 18, who was reportedly shot in the jaw and consequently underwent an emergency operation.
Correspondence from 1983-2002
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has been corresponding with Governments regarding alleged violations since the mandate was established over two decades ago. While the Project on Extrajudicial Executions is making efforts to provide easily browsed versions of as many years as possible, much of the earlier correspondence is available only in the PDF versions of reports from 1983 to the present.