A/HRC/39/41 Anexos [Inglés únicamente] Annex I Comprehensive information on alleged cases of reprisals and intimidation for cooperation with the United Nations on human rights 1. Bahrain 1. Ten special procedure mandate holders expressed grave concern about an o ngo ing trend of harassment and intimidation against Bahraini civil society representatives see kin g to cooperate with the United Nations. Reprisals have taken the fo rm o f s weep ing t ravel bans for at least 20 selected individuals, and the arrest, detention, sexual assault and torture and other forms of ill-treatment of other targeted individuals (see 4 July 2017, BHR 8/ 2017 (the Government responded on 2 August 2017); 13 July 2017, BHR 9/2017 (the Government responded on 2 August 2017); and 13 December BHR 13/2017 (at the time o f writing the Government had not responded).1 2. Long-standing travel bans remained in effect for many civil society represent ativ es during successive sessions of the Human Rights Council, preventing them from participating between June 2017 and June 2018.2 A number of individuals have also reported the use of intimidation because of their past engagement with the Council to discourage them from speaking out again, including threats of physical v io len ce, p u blic defamation and rape. 3. Three family members of Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei, of the Bahrain Institute fo r Rights and Democracy who has engaged with the Human Rights Council, were s en t en ced on terrorism-related charges on 30 October 2017. In March 2017, while Mr. Al-Wadaei was attending the 34th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mr. Al-Wadaei’s brother-in-law Mr. Sayed Nazar Al-Wadaei, cousin by marriage, Mr. Mahmoud M arzo o q Mansoor and mother-in-law Ms. Hajar Mansoor Hassan were arrested in Bahrain, subjected to different forms of ill-treatment and torture, and faced terrorism-related charges. Bahrain i authorities also reportedly targeted Mr. Al-Wadaei’s wife, Ms. Duaa Al-Wadaei in M arch 2018 when she was sentenced in absentia to two months prison for “insulting a police officer.” It was reported that Ms. Hajar Mansoor Hassan faced further reprisals in her place of detention, the Isa Town Prison Center, based on the raising of her and her family’s cas e and conditions in the Prison Center by civil society at the Human Rights Council on 2 Ju ly 2018 and at the review of Bahrain by the Human Rights Committee from 2 to 4 July 2018. 4. The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights addressed allegations in writ in g to the Government of Bahrain on 25 July 2017 and 29 May 2018. On 25 June 2018 the Government responded to the allegations of travel bans that freedom of movement in Bahrain is guaranteed by law, and that Ms. Ebtesam Al-Alsaegh, Mr. Nab eel Rajab , M s . Neda Al-Salman (see Annex II of the present report), and the family memb ers o f M r. A lWadaei’s were not subject to reprisals for cooperation with the United Natio ns b u t rat her responsible for criminal offenses. 5. With regard to Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei’s family members (Mr.Nazar AlWadaei, Mr. Mahmoud Marzooq Mansoor, and Ms. Hajar Mansoor Hassan), the Government stated they were faced reprisals for committin g criminal offences and not 1 2 GE.18-13325 OHCHR, “ Bahrain must end worsening human rights clampdown, UN experts say,” 16 June 2017. Individuals included in the travel ban include: Mr. Mohamed al T ajer, Ms. Enas Oun, Mr. Ahmed alSaffar, Ms. Fatima al-Mutawa, Ms. Rula al-Saffar, Ms. Jalila al-Salman, Ms. Nidal al-Salman, Mr. Radhi al-Musawi, Ms. Fatima al-Halwachi, Mr. Ebrahim Sharif, Mr. Ahmed Radhi, Mr. Mohamed Jawad, Dr. T aha al-Durazi, Mr. Faisal Hayat, Mr. Munthur al-Khour, Ms. Masooma al-Sayed, Ms. Rihanna al-Musawi, Sayed T alal al-Musawi and Mr. Ali al-Ghadeer, among others. 19