A/HRC/45/36 Human Rights noted with concern the situation of nine civil society organizations (including CENIDH) whose legal personality was suspended and assets seized at the end of 2018.67 The High Commissioner addressed their situation in her 2019 report (A/HRC/42/18, para. 20). On 31 July 2019, mandate holders reiterated their concern at the lack of progress in the case that they had previously addressed in March 2019 (NIC 1/2019; and NIC 4/2019). 90. On 7 September 2019, Mr. Aníbal Toruño, who had recently returned to Nicaragua from exile, found threatening graffiti on the walls of his house and those of Radio Darío, of which he is the owner. It is believed that the graffiti was linked to action taken by the UN related to his case, in an effort to silence and intimidate him. Two weeks earlier, on 26 August 2019, special procedures mandate holders and the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had issued a press release highlighting that Radio Darío workers in León had been the victims of harassment, threats, arbitrary detention and acts of violence, and that their facilities had been raided and attacked by pro-Government elements.68 Mandate holders had also addressed the situation of Mr. Toruño and Radio Darío on 19 August 2019 to the authorities (NIC 5/2019). 91. It was reported to OHCHR that Ms. Josefa Esterlina Meza, member of the Asociación Madres de Abril (AMA), was intimidated and questioned by migration authorities following her trip to Geneva in September 2019, where she engaged with the UN, including meeting the High Commissioner for Human Rights. AMA represents mothers and relatives of people who lost their lives as a result of State repression. On 18 September 2019, days after her return to Nicaragua, Ms. Meza was questioned about the reason for her trip to Switzerland at the Peñas Blancas border crossing with Costa Rica, where she was photographed without her consent by migration officers. In March 2020, she travelled to Geneva to engage with UN representatives and participate in an NGO side event on Nicaragua on the margins of the Human Rights Council. The COVID-19 crisis interrupted her trip and, as of May 2020, she had not been able to return home. There were fears that she could be subject to acts of reprisals when the returns to Nicaragua. 92. On 17 May 2019, Nicaragua participated in the UPR and received a recommendation that all human rights defenders who engage with multilateral institutions and international and regional human rights bodies can do so without fear of persecution or violence and that any allegations or instances of reprisals are promptly investigated (A/HRC/42/16, 125.163), which the Government did not accept (A/HRC/42/16/Add.1). 27. Pakistan 93. In its July 2019 report the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances noted concerns at the information received on cases of reprisals against relatives, and civil society actors working on their behalf, in particular recent testimonies indicating that the authorities have exerted pressure on relatives of victims of enforced disappearances (see A/HRC/WGEID/116/1, Annex III) to persuade them not to pursue their cases before the Working Group (A/HRC/42/40, para. 81). 94. During the reporting period, OHCHR received information that relatives and key witnesses to the 2014 disappearance of Mr. Asadullah Faiz Mohammed have been the subject of threats and harassment by authorities since the case was brought to the attention of the Working Group in 2014. Under its standard procedure, the Working Group sent a letter regarding allegations that Mr. Asadullah was “abducted on 18 March 2014 by frontier corps personnel…from the CGS colony satellite town, Quetta, Balochistan” (A/HRC/WGEID/104/1, para. 94). According to information received, close relatives of Mr. Asadullah Faiz Mohammed have subsequently been questioned by army authorities on whether they had filed a case with the UN, and other relatives and the key witness have received frequent calls pressuring them to withdraw testimony and stop any kind of activity regarding the case, including inquiries with the UN. 67 68 38 Update on Nicaragua at the 41st Session to the Human Rights Council, (10 July 2019), https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24814&LangID=E. OHCHR, “Nicaragua must stop reprisals against journalists, say human rights experts,” (26 August 2019), https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24920&LangID=E.