A/HRC/57/60 18. According to information received by OHCHR, during the reporting period Mr. Mushaima’s physical condition has deteriorated further and there are serious concerns for his health. 19 July 2023 marked two years of isolation of Mr. Mushaima at the Kanoo Medical Center, where he is reportedly not provided with adequate healthcare and is denied freedom of worship. 4. Bangladesh 19. Ms. Sanjida Islam Tulee and other members of Maayer Daak association, a platform of families of disappeared persons, were included in the 2023 report of the Secretary General22 on alleged threats, police visits, increased surveillance, and a smear campaign in relation to the visit to Bangladesh by the then United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. According to information received by OHCHR, during the reporting period Ms. Sanjida Islam and other members of Maayer Daak, continued to receive threatening calls, and visits by police officers, and remained under increased surveillance. During the reporting period they were reportedly visited several times by security agencies, who instructed them to stop speaking out, including with United Nations officials, while media and other organizations continued to undertake smear campaigns against them for their work on the human rights of the disappeared and their families, including with the United Nations. 20. On 24 June 2023, in the context of an official visit to the country of the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Peace Operations to attend an official meeting co-hosted by Bangladesh, Canada, and Uruguay, Ms. Sanjida Islam Tulee and a group of some 20 women waited outside of the meeting venue to hand him a document containing information about the alleged disappearance of their relatives. Police did not allow Ms. Islam Tulee and the group of women to deliver the document. The same day, Ms. Islam Tulee was reportedly visited by the police in her home and instructed not to approach the United Nations. 21. The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances reiterated in its annual report its previous recommendation to the Government of Bangladesh that it must ensure that the relatives of disappeared persons, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations working on their behalf are protected from any threat, intimidation, or reprisals. (A/HRC/54/22 para. 62) 22. The case of human rights organization Odhikar, as well as Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan and Mr. Nasiruddin Elan, Secretary and Director of Odhikar, was included in the 2011, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 reports of the Secretary-General23 after allegedly being accused of anti-State and anti-Government activities following their engagement in the first cycle of the UPR of Bangladesh in 2009. The detention and charges against Odhikar staff as well as threats, harassment, surveillance, and the killing of one of its staff have been addressed by special procedures mandates holders since 2013.24 Odhikar’s bank account was frozen under the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Bill of 2016 and its application for renewal of registration was not approved by the Government. 25 23. On 11 July 2023 special procedures mandate holders called on Bangladesh to end all acts of harassment against representatives of Odhikar. They referred to the criminal case against the organization’s representatives as an emblematic example of the use of criminal proceedings to silence human rights defenders and organizations, which have documented enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings and cooperated with UN human rights 22 23 24 25 GE.24-14259 https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=32017; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=34961; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=34960. A/HRC/54/61, Annex I para. 14. A/HRC/18/19, paras. 25–26; A/HRC/42/30, para. 40 and Annex II, paras. 11–12; 10–11; A/HRC/45/36, para. 47 and Annex II, paras. 8–9; A/HRC/48/28, Annex II paras.; A/HRC/51/47: Annex II, paras. 17–21, A/HRC/54/61, Annex II, paras. 15–19. BGD 4/2022. BGD 6/2021, BGD 1/2017, 6/2015, 2/2014, 15/2013, 10/2013, and, 9/2013. A/HRC/51/47: Annex II, para. 22. See also https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=37398 and https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=37405. 39