A/HRC/39/41 Annexe 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 ongoing trend of harassment and intimidation against Bahraini civil society representatives seeking to cooperate with the United Nations. Reprisals have taken the form of sweeping travel 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 of writing the Government had not responded).1 2. Long-standing travel bans remained in effect for many civil society representatives 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 violence, public defamation and rape. 3. Three family members of Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei, of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy who has engaged with the Human Rights Council, were sentenced 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 Marzooq 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. Bahraini authorities also reportedly targeted Mr. Al-Wadaei’s wife, Ms. Duaa Al-Wadaei in March 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 case and conditions in the Prison Center by civil society at the Human Rights Council on 2 July 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 writing 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. Nabeel Rajab, Ms. Neda Al-Salman (see Annex II of the present report), and the family members of Mr. AlWadaei’s were not subject to reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations but rather 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 committing criminal offences and not because of Mr. Al-Wadaei’s cooperation with the United Nations. Regarding Mr. Nazar AlWadaei, according to the Government, two persons who investigated in relation to a 30person attack on a public order patrol on 3 January 2017 confessed that Mr. Nazar AlWadaei was involved. The Office of the Prosecutor referred the case to the court, and Mr. 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 Tajer, 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. Taha al-Durazi, Mr. Faisal Hayat, Mr. Munthur al-Khour, Ms. Masooma al-Sayed, Ms. Rihanna al-Musawi, Sayed Talal al-Musawi and Mr. Ali al-Ghadeer, among others. 19