5. Several allegations were received by special procedures about travel bans allegedly imposed on human rights defenders for their cooperation with the Human Rights Council, in particular the defenders’ participation in the thirty-second and thirty-third sessions of the Council, the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or human rights workshops. On 25 November 2016, three mandate holders raised concerns about allegations of a travel ban imposed on civil society representatives Mohammed Jawad, Ms. Nedal Al-Salman, Hussain Salam Ahmed Radhi, Mohammed Al-Tajer and Enas Oun in this regard (see A/HRC/34/75, BHR A/HRC/36/31 17 7/2016). At the time of the finalization of the present report, no response had been received from the Government.

On 8 July 2016, some mandate holders raised concerns regarding allegations of a travel ban imposed on members of civil society, Hussain Salam Ahmed Radhi, Ebtesam Abdulhusain Ali-Alsaegh, Ebrahim Al-Demistani and Abdulnabi Al-Ekry in an act of reprisal for their cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights Council, in particular their participation in the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council, and their human rights work (see A/HRC/34/75, BHR 4/2016).