43.As noted in my previous report, 64 several United Nations human rights experts have expressed concern at the law on non-governmental organizations which carry functions of foreign agents”, adopted in November 2012.65 Particular concern was raised by the Committee against Torture at allegations of reprisals against the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and the Public Verdict Foundation via that law. On 23 December 2013, the Committee expressed grave concern after a Russian court ordered Memorial to register as a “foreign agent”, allegedly owing to its political activities and foreign funding.66 Replies to letters by the special procedures and the Committee were received on 9 August 2013 and 19 February 2014 respectively. In them, the Government indicated that the “activities of Russian law enforcement authorities ... are carried out in strict accordance with existing legal norms and have nothing to do with ‘reprisals’”, and that Russian legislation did not establish any legislative or administrative barriers restricting activities of non-commercial organizations. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, in her report of 3 March 2014,67 reiterated serious concern about the use of that law to target and intimidate human rights organizations which had engaged with the United Nations, its mechanisms and representatives in the field of human rights, in particular about the acts of reprisals against the Public Verdict Foundation and the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial