A/HRC/45/36 23. It was further reported to OHCHR that on 17 February 2020, Mr. Capelle applied for a visa to travel to Cameroon and, on the same evening, Mr. Awazi reportedly received text messages and a call the next day threatening to kill him if he continued to associate with Mr. Capelle. In an additional incident on 26 February 2020, Mr. Capelle arrived at Yaoundé international airport, but the same day was forcibly returned to Belgium without an explanation of the expulsion or charges brought against him, or the opportunity to speak to a lawyer or appeal the decision. 24. In May 2020, OHCHR received allegations of continued reprisals against Mr. Nfor Hanson Nchanji and his close relatives, following his participation in the 10th session of the Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva from 30 November to 1 December 2017. Harassment and vilification of Mr. Hanson Nchanji reportedly began in December 2017 and continued into the reporting period, including online attacks by some pro-government social media users portraying him as a terrorist. One post called him “a traitor to the republic of Cameroon” and stated: “You went to the UN to sell us but God punished you.” On 2 December 2017, when Mr. Hanson Nchanji returned to Cameroon after the Forum, a close relative had reportedly received a letter with death threats. In March 2019, Mr. Hanson Nchanji’s family home was allegedly burned down by soldiers and his close relatives relocated. The incidents were reported to OHCHR at the time but could not be publicly reported due to protection concerns. Mr. Hanson Nchanji, a human rights journalist investigating and reporting on the Anglophone crisis and at the time of the Forum the Editor-In-Chief of the Douala-based Equinoxe Television and founder of the on-line Cameroon News Agency, is currently in exile. 8. China 25. Multiple United Nations actors identified alleged intimidation and reprisals. It was reported to OHCHR that from June 2019 to April 2020 there were new incidents involving 15 individuals who engaged, or attempted to engage, with the UN human rights mechanisms, including through attending trainings. Reprisals reportedly included arrest, detention, ill-treatment while in detention, forcible disappearance into “residential surveillance at a designated location,” travel bans and confiscation of passports, seizure of property, interrogation and surveillance. Names and further details have been withheld due to fears of further reprisals. In December 2019, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights addressed patterns of intimidation and reprisals with the Government in writing. 26. In its opinion adopted in May 2019, where it found arbitrary the detention of two individuals who were allegedly victims of reprisals (see Annex II), 15 the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated its concern “that the presence of multiple cases found in violation of the international norms on detention indicates a systemic problem with arbitrary detention” (A/HRC/WGAD/2019/20, para. 92).” 27. On 17 August 2020, the Government responded in detail to the note verbale sent in connection to the present report and stated that judicial authorities deal with cases in accordance with the law and protect the rights of each and every criminal suspect or defendant. There is no so-called retaliation. The Government expressed its strong dissatisfaction with and firm opposition to the use of unconfirmed information and distortion of the efforts to crack down on illegal and criminal activities in accordance with the law. The Government urged OHCHR to stop interfering in countries’ internal affairs and judicial sovereignty. 9. Colombia 28. In July 2019, a Security Council delegation visited the Cauca Department and met community leaders who expressed concerns about the killing of social leaders. The Security 15 24 Opinion No. 20/2019 adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-fourth session, concerning Mr. Zhen Jianghua and Qin Yongmin (China), 24 April–3 May 2019.