A/HRC/24/29 who seek to cooperate or have cooperated with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights that have been included in the present report represent therefore only a small sample of the cases that are likely to have occurred. 18. During the period under review, information was received about acts of intimidation or reprisal following cooperation with OHCHR, the Human Rights Council, special procedures, human rights treaty bodies, the universal periodic review mechanism, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and United Nations peace missions. B. Summary of cases 1. Bahrain 19. In a communication sent on 18 October 2012,7 the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression and opinion and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association raised allegations that, following the twenty-first session of the Human Rights Council, the newspaper Al-Watan published, on 25 September 2012, the names and photographs of participants in the universal periodic review of Bahrain, including Mohammed Al-Maskati, Maryam Al-Khawaja, Dr. Nada Dhaif, Dr. Mondher Alkhoor, Jalila Al-Salman and Said Yousif, who were accused of “discrediting Bahrain in Geneva”. 20. In addition, on 16 October 2012, Mr. Al-Maskati was reportedly summoned to AlHoora Police Station for interrogation, detained overnight and charged the next day with “rioting and participating in an illegal assembly”.8 In response, the Government affirmed that Mr. Al-Maskati had been summonsed to appear on 16 October 2012 for questioning about charges of riotous assembly and participation in an unlicensed march, under article 178 of the Bahraini Criminal Code. While in the police station, he was not under arrest or in detention, but stayed for the time necessary for his statement to be taken and for him to complete evidence procedures and the preliminary report for his appearance before the public prosecutor.9 2. Colombia 21. The allegations received indicated that Carlos Yamil Paez Diaz, a land restitution leader who worked for the organization Tierra y Vida y Forjando Futuros, on 4 July 2012, was threatened by the “Anti-restitution Army” in a pamphlet against human rights defenders active in his area of work. On 6 July 2012, the OHCHR Colombia office issued a press release on that threat;10 one week later, Mr. Paez received a handwritten death threat against himself and his family. Since then, he has benefited from a protection scheme comprising an armoured car and two bodyguards, with an additional bodyguard being added after the threat. While initially these measures were applied only during the day, following an intervention by OHCHR Colombia, the National Protection Unit under the Ministry of the Interior agreed that one of the escorts would provide night shift coverage. 7 8 9 10 A/HRC/22/67, p. 125. See also A/HRC/18/19, paras. 15-24 and A/HRC/21/18, paras. 18-21 and 51-54. A/HRC/22/67, p. 140. See OHCHR Colombia press release of 6 July 2012. 7