A/HRC/54/61 Government has responded. 15 According to information received by OHCHR, Mr. AlSingace is currently held in the Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo Medical Centre and in solitary confinement since July 2021. In March/April 2023, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention deemed his detention arbitrary (Opinion 2/2023). As of 30 April 2023, Mr. AlSingace reportedly continues the hunger strike he had started in July 2021 to protest against the degrading treatment he had allegedly been subjected to in Jau prison and the confiscation of his manuscript. 9. The cases of human rights defender Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al- Wadaei and several of his relatives were included in the 2019, 2020 and 2022 reports of the Secretary-General16 on allegations of arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment, removal of citizenship and reprisals against family members for Mr. Al-Wadaei’s continuous engagement with the United Nations. In 2018, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention 17 found the detention of Mr. Al-Wadaei’s relatives to be arbitrary, based on their family ties and in reprisal for Mr. Al-Wadaei’s cooperation with the United Nations. Since 2012, Mr. Al-Wadaei is residing in exile. In July 2021, digital forensic evidence from an investigation reportedly confirmed that Mr. AlWadaedi was amongst a group of human rights defenders targeted and successfully hacked with the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on their mobile phones during the period from 2017 to 2019. 10. In its July 2022 report, the Working Group noted with concern that it continued to receive information about reprisals against individuals who have been the subject of an urgent appeal or an opinion or whose cases have prompted a recommendation of the Working Group (A/HRC/51/29). The Working Group noted allegations of reprisals against Mr. Sayed Nazar Naama Baqqer Ali Yusuf Alwadaei, the brother-in-law of Mr. Al-Wadaedi, who reportedly remains imprisoned in Jau Prison serving an 11-year sentence in reprisals for the activism of his brother-in-law, Mr. Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei (para. 29). 11. Mr. Hassan Mushaima, the former Secretary of the Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy, who was convicted and sentenced to life on terrorism charges, was included in the 2011, 2012 and 2021 reports of the Secretary-General18 following his engagement with the United Nations human rights mechanisms. Special procedures mandate holders addressed his situation on multiple occasions, 19 to which the Government replied. 20 According to information received by OHCHR, on 22 November 2022, four members of Mr. Mushaima’s family were arrested after a sit-in protest outside the Kanoo Medical centre requesting urgent medical treatment for his medical conditions. 12. On 17 July 2023, the Government responded to the note verbale sent in connection to the present report and stated that in Bahrain no one is arrested because of peaceful political activity or affiliations. 13. Concerning the situation of Messrs. Al-Khawaja, Al-Singace and Mushaima, the Government noted that the three are being tried in cases involving calling for the overthrow of the political system in the country and changing it by force, committing hostile terrorist crimes, and communicating with foreign countries in attempts to undermine security and stability in the Kingdom. It stated further that Mr. Al-Khawaja’s health condition is being 15 16 17 18 19 20 GE.23-15378 https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=34960; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=2110; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoa dFile?gId=36840. A/HRC/51/47 Annex II paras. 10 and 15; A/HRC/45/36, Annex II paras. 1–4; A/HRC/42/30, Annex II, paras. 3–6; A/HRC/39/41, Annex I para. 5. A/HRC/WGAD/2018/51, paras. 85, 93 and 96. A/HRC/48/28, Annex II paras. 5–6; A/HRC/21/18, paras. 53–54; A/HRC/18/19, paras. 15–24. BHR 1/2019; BHR 5/2014; BHR 4/2012; BHR 17/2011; BHR 4/2011; BHR 3/2011; BHR 2/2007. https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=30648; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=30287; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=30187; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=30864; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=32017; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=34961; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=34960. 45