A/HRC/36/31 addressed acts of intimidation and reprisals related to her visit in her end of mission statement of 21 July 2016.f She renewed her request to all civil society actors, media workers and prisoners with whom she met to report to her any cases of reprisals. She also reiterated that the Government must ensure the safety of all her interlocutors and guarantee that they will not face any reprisals, including threats, harassment, punishment or judicial proceedings. The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights addressed the allegations with the Government in June 2017. 59. In its resolution 34/22, the Human Rights Council emphasized that no one should face reprisals, monitoring, surveillance, threats, harassment or intimidation for cooperating or speaking with special procedures, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, the international independent fact-finding mission or the United Nations, and called upon the Government to take appropriate measures to prevent such acts and to combat impunity by investigating promptly and effectively all allegations of intimidation and reprisal in order to bring perpetrators to justice and to provide victims with appropriate remedies. 16. Oman 60. On 27 June 2016, five special procedure mandate holders expressed concerns about the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of Said Ali Said Jadad, a human rights defender, journalist and blogger, for his human rights activities and the alleged continued reprisals for his cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association during his visit to Oman in September 2014, as well as for his cooperation with international organizations (see A/HRC/34/75, para. 10, OMN 1/2016). 61. On 21 January 2015, Mr. Jadad was arrested in Salalah, reportedly in response to his critical writing. He was convicted on 8 March 2015, for “undermining the prestige of the State,” for “inciting the public to join an illegal gathering” and for “publicizing material that disturbs the public order.” He was released in April 2015, pending appeal, rearrested again on 18 November 2015, and later released. In a letter dated 2 September 2016, the Government of Oman responded to the concerns raised and informed the mandate holders that as a result of their appeal, Mr. Jadad’s case had been re-examined and that he had been released from detention on 26 August 2016. 17. Pakistan 62. On 18 April 2017, the National Commission for Human Rights of Pakistan was due to brief the Committee against Torture during its sixtieth session, following the submission of an alternative report to the Committee. The request made by the Commission Chair for permission to travel to Geneva was denied on the basis that the national human rights institution was “not mandated to interact with the Committee on the present issue.” Representatives of the Commission were eventually able to participate in a private meeting with the Committee via video link on 18 April 2017. 63. The Committee noted in its concluding observations its serious concern that the Chair of the Commission had not received authorization, which was reportedly required in Pakistan for the National Commission for Human Rights to be able to travel to participate in a private meeting with the Committee (CAT/C/PAK/CO/1, para. 20). The Committee recommended that “the State party should take immediate measures to ensure that the National Commission for Human Rights is able to carry out its mandate fully and in an effective and independent manner, and in full conformity with the Principles relating to the status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Paris Principles) (…) including allowing the Commission to meet in person with international human rights mechanisms abroad (ibid. para. 21). f 26 OHCHR, End of mission statement of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, 21 July 2017.