A/HRC/27/38 because of concern that the alleged victims might be subjected to further acts of harassment, intimidation or reprisal if their complaints were published. 13. Information has been received about acts of intimidation and reprisals following cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), including its field presences, the Human Rights Council, special procedures, human rights treaty bodies, the universal periodic review mechanism, the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and human rights components of United Nations peace missions. B. Summary of cases 1. Algeria 14. On 28 June 2013, three special rapporteurs raised allegations of acts of intimidation and reprisals against Yahia Bounouar, an independent journalist and President of the Algerian Observatory for Human Rights, for documenting and submitting information on human rights violations against human rights defenders, bloggers and trade unionists to several special procedures.18 On 23 May 2013, following his coverage of the In Amenas hostage crisis, Mr. Bounouar, who had been under surveillance since the establishment of the Observatory in July 2012, was reportedly detained for several hours by State security officials at Constantine airport without being informed of the reason. At the time of finalization of the present report, no reply had been received from the Government. 2. Cameroon 15. Several members of the Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association were allegedly subjected to reprisals following the submission of their report to the United Nations in relation to the second universal periodic review of Cameroon.19 On 1 July 2012, an assassination attempt against Mr. Jeidoh Duni, legal representative of the Association, was reported. After they had acted as witnesses in the investigation of that incident, Mr. Duni and five other members of the Association, Adamou Isa, Sali Haman, Dahiru Beloumi, Njawga Duni and Musa Usman Ndamba, were summoned to appear before the military tribunal of Bafoussam on 23 April 2013, for illegal possession of firearms. On 10 May 2013, Mr. Ndamba, Vice-President of the Association, appeared before the Court of First Instance in Bamenda on the charge of spreading false information. His trial was first adjourned to 27 May 2013, then to 19 August 2013. At the time of finalization of the present report, no reply had been received from the Government to the joint communication sent on 4 September 2013 by five special procedures mandate holders. 16. Reports were received by special procedures of the murder of a human rights defender and a journalist, and intimidation and reprisals against several others defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, in relation to their participation in the second universal periodic review of Cameroon. On 5 July 2013, the Director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS, who had contributed to the report of Human Rights Watch that had addressed recommendations to the second review of Cameroon, was found dead at his home in Yaoundé. Although the police opened an investigation, no crime scene investigation or autopsy had reportedly been carried out. Subsequently, three colleagues of the deceased were detained in relation to the investigation. In the month preceding the murder, a series of burglaries and arson attacks 18 19 6 A/HRC/25/74, case DZA 3/2013. A/HRC/25/74, case CMR 4/2013.