A/HRC/42/30 Annex II Information on alleged cases included in follow-up to previous reports 1. Bahrain 1. The 2018 report of the Secretary-General included references by multiple United Nations actors to a general context of harassment and intimidation against Bahraini civil society representatives seeking to cooperate with the United Nations (A/HRC/39/41 paras. 29–30). Those individuals included Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei and some of his close relatives, Ms. Ebtesam Abdulhusain Ali-Alsaegh, and Mr. Nabeel Rajab (A/HRC/39/41, Annex I, paras. 1–6; Annex II, paras. 4–11). 2. During the reporting period, travel bans allegedly continued to be applied against those who wish to travel abroad, including to engage with the Human Rights Council. This prevented a number of civil society representatives based in Bahrain from participating in the 40th session of the Council in March 2019. Names of those affected are not put forward due to fear of further reprisals. 3. Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei reportedly continues to suffer disparaging public statements in pro-Government media. The deterioration of the detention and health conditions of his mother-in-law, Ms. Hajar Mansoor Hassan, and her two cellmates at Isa Town Women’s detention Centre, Ms. Medina Ali and Ms. Najah Yusuf, have been reported. On 19 January 2019, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found the detention of Mr. Al-Wadaei’s relatives, Mr. Mahmood Marzooq Mansoor and Ms. Hassan, to be arbitrary and in reprisal for their family ties with him (A/HRC/WGAD/2018/51, para. 85, 93). 106 The Opinion was reported in the media and the Ministry of Interior publicly referred to Mr. Al-Wadaei as a “terrorist fugitive” and a “criminal,” and to his family members as “terrorists.” 4. On 17 January 2019, five special procedures mandate holders addressed allegations concerning Ms. Ali-Alsaegh and Ms. Hassan (BHR 7/2018; A/HRC/36/31, Annex I, paras. 5, 7; A/HRC/40/60, para. 75). Concerns about Ms. Ali-Alsaegh were in relation to threats, travel restrictions and criminal charges for her cooperation with the United Nations, including the Human Rights Council. During the 38th session of the Human Rights Council, after Ms. Ali-Alsaegh posted several tweets highlighting human rights concerns in Bahrain, she received messages through Twitter and Instagram urging her to close her accounts and to stop her human rights work, under threat of public defamation and rape. Her situation was addressed by special procedures in 2016 and 2017 (BHR 9/2017;107 BHR 8/2017;108 BHR 4/2016109). 5. The mandate holders also raised concerns about further acts of reprisals, including physical abuse in detention, against Ms. Hassan, convicted under a counter-terrorism law. On 16 September 2018, Ms. Hassan was reportedly assaulted, harshly beaten, hospitalized, and then held incommunicado in Isa Town Prison from 16 to 23 September 2018. Around those dates, the 2018 report of the Secretary-General, which mentioned her case, was 106 107 108 109 Opinion No. 51/2018 adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-second session, concerning Sayed Nazar Naama Baqqer Ali Yusuf Alwadaei, Mahmood Marzooq Mansoor and Hajar Mansoor Hassan (Bahrain), 20–24 August 2018. Response from Government: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/ DownLoadFile?gId=33623. Response from Government: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/ DownLoadFile?gId=33610. Response from Government: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=2078. https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=2101. 43