A/HRC/54/61
57.
Annex II contains information on developments in the situation of the human rights
defender network Civil Human Rights Front and its head, Mr. Figo Hu-Wun Chan, as well
as Mr. Shen Youlian, Ms. Li Qiaochu, Ms. Li Yuhan, Ms. Xu Yan, Ms. Chen Jianfang,
Ms. Wang Yu, Ms. Li Wenzu, Mr. Wang Quanzhang, Ms. Wang Qiaoling and Mr. Li Heping.
58.
The Government responded to the note verbale sent in connection to the present
report.
Colombia
59.
Annex II contains information on developments in the situation of Mr. Wilmer
Orlando Anteliz Gonzalez.
60.
The Government responded to the note verbale sent in connection to the present
report.
Cuba
61.
Annex II contains information on developments in the situation of Mr. Juan Antonio
Madrazo Luna and Ms. Marthadela Tamayo González of Comité Ciudadanos por la
Integración Racial.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
62.
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo (MONUSCO) documented several incidents of reprisal for cooperation with
the Mission, including death threats. Names and details have been withheld due to fear of
further reprisals.
Djibouti
63.
Members of the International Federation of Human Rights, Mr. Alexis Deswaef and
Ms. Victoire d’Humières, were denied entry and expelled from the country, respectively, in
connection with an individual complaint that the Federation had filed in 2017 before the
United Nations Human Rights Committee.42
64.
Annex II contains information on developments in the situation of Mr. Kadar Abdi
Ibrahim of the Mouvement pour la démocratie et la liberté.
Egypt
Special procedure mandate holders addressed allegations of undue restrictions to and
intimidation and surveillance of civil society actors and Indigenous Peoples’ representatives
participating in the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and raised concerns about
allegations of intimidation and reprisals in connection with the session. 43 During the session,
mandate holders also publicly noted multiple reports and corroborated evidence of civil
society actors being interrogated by Egyptian security officers and monitored and
photographed without their consent inside the venue.44
65.
66.
The website of the NGO Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies 45 faced a
cyberattack after it published a joint report for the mid-term universal periodic review
process.
42
43
44
45
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See Ministry of the Interior, Djibouti, communiqué No. 227, 14 March 2023, and
CCPR/C/130/D/3593/2019.
See communication EGY 9/2022.
See https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/11/egypt-un-experts-alarmed-harassment-civilsociety-actors-cop27-climate.
Allegations of reprisals against the Institute were included in previous reports of the
Secretary-General, A/HRC/42/30, annex II, para. 50; A/HRC/45/36, annex II, para. 49;
A/HRC/48/28, annex II, paras. 44–45.
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