A/HRC/45/36 104. On 30 March 2020, the Government76 indicated that the central directorate of the Ministry of Justice found a number of gross violations of the legislation on non-profit organizations. On this basis, on 12 August 2019, the central directorate filed an administrative action with the Moscow City Court calling for the organization to be disbanded. On 6 November 2019, the Court adopted a decision to dissolve the organization, which filed an appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court. On 27 July 2020, the Government responded to the note verbale in connection to the present report, further noting that on 23 April 2020, the Ministry of Justice decided to exclude CSIPN from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow on 22 June 2020 terminated administrative proceedings due to the liquidation of the administrative plaintiff. The Government refutes that CSIPN is persecuted for its cooperation with the UN, and notes that 60 organizations in the Russian Federation have ECOSOC status, including some working on indigenous rights. 31. Saudi Arabia 105. Multiple UN 77 actors identified alleged intimidation and reprisals, including arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, torture, and harassment targeting Saudi civil society representatives cooperating, having cooperated, or seeking to cooperate with the UN. The present report includes allegations of reprisals concerning ten individuals in detention. Additional cases have not been included due to fear of further reprisals. On 3 July 2019, a group of Member States in the Human Rights Council reiterated their “serious concerns regarding all acts of intimidation or reprisal against human rights defenders and investigative journalists seeking to engage or engaging with the UN,” providing examples in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.78 106. On 19 December 2019, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights addressed patterns of intimidation and reprisals to the Government in writing. In January 2020, the Government responded, reiterating information on the charges imposed on individuals addressed by multiple UN actors. 107. On 15 July 2019, special procedures mandate holders expressed their most serious concern at the executions of 37 individuals on 23 April 2019, 79 including Mr. Munir AlAdam,80 whose execution took place while his detention was under consideration by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (SAU 9/2019). 81 Mr. Al-Adam, a juvenile with disabilities when detained, was one of 14 individuals charged by the General Bureau for Investigation and Prosecution (since July 2017, the General Prosecution Office) in relation to pro-democracy protests, with a count of “joining a terrorist cell within the country that disobeyed the King and to disturb the peace,” which requested the death penalty against each of them. 108. The mandate holders raised concern that Mr. Al-Adam may have been subject to reprisals during his incarceration and while a communication was pending before the special procedures (SAU 9/2019). On 2 August 2018, they had specifically requested that the Government ensure his physical and mental integrity, and had raised concerns that Mr. Al-Adam was reportedly subjected to acts of torture and ill-treatment while in detention 76 77 78 79 80 81 https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=35210. See also A/HRC/42/30 (paras. 73–74, Annex I, paras., 91–95 and Annex II, paras. 92–95); A/HRC/39/41 (paras. 65–66, Annex I, paras. 95–99 and Annex II, paras. 49–50); and A/HRC/36/31 (para. 49, Annex I, paras. 68–69). Statement by the Netherlands on behalf of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg, 41st session of the Human Rights Council, General Debate, item 5 (3 July 2019), http://webtv.un.org/search/item5general-debate-23rd-meeting-41st-regular-session-human-rightscouncil/6055385648001/?term=&lan=english&cat=Regular%2041st%20session&sort=date&page=7# player. See also, OHCHR, “Bachelet strongly condemns mass executions in Saudi Arabia,” (24 April 2019) https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24510&LangID=E. Also spelled Munir Aal Adam. Opinion No. 26/2019 adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-fourth session, concerning Mounir Abdullah Ahmad Aal Adam (Saudi Arabia), 24 April–3 May 2019. 41