A/HRC/54/61 reprisals for his engagement with the Human Rights Council in 2013 (ISR 7/2013). Following almost five years of judicial proceedings, in March 2021, Mr. Amro received a three-month suspended sentence with a two-year probation period and a fine in relation to his human rights work, which he appealed. The next hearing or verdict on his appeal was scheduled for 25 June 2023. 96. On 17 November 2022, special procedures mandate holders condemned attacks against Mr. Amro and urged the immediate lifting of the closed military zone imposed on his house, a day after he had filed a police complaint against Israeli settler violence.121 According to information received by OHCHR, on 28 November, Mr. Amro was brought for interrogation at the Givat Ha’avot Israeli police station, in connection to a video he had filmed and uploaded online on 25 November 2022, of an Israeli soldier physically assaulting an Israeli citizen in the city of Hebron, for which two soldiers had been suspended. Mr. Amro was released two days later, upon being formally charged by the competent military court with “attacking a soldier, disturbing the Israeli army work, breaching public order, disturbing the police investigation and assaulting a police officer and preventing him from doing his work.” 97. On 2 December, Mr. Amro was reportedly searched and detained by four Israeli intelligence officers while conducting a media interview. He was released on the same day. On 13 February 2023, Mr. Amro was reportedly assaulted by an Israeli soldier while providing a tour for international journalists on the human rights situation of Palestinians in the H2 area of Hebron. Mr. Amro allegedly sustained bruises on his hand, arm and back as a result. The soldier involved was sentenced to 10 days in prison. 17. Libya 98. During the reporting period, multiple UN actors122 continued to address the impact of requirements imposed on civil society organizations on their ability to engage with the United Nations in the field of human rights, which have been included in the reports of the SecretaryGeneral since 2021. 123 In October 2020, the Tripoli Civil Society Commission issued a Decree in implementation of Presidential Council decision No. 286, requiring all civil society organizations registered in the previous five years to re-register or be considered illegitimate and dissolved by the Commission. 99. Legal measures curtailing the activities of civil society, including requiring them to report any interaction with any international actors, including the United Nations officials (S/2022/31, para. 53), continued during the reporting period. 100. The Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Division (HRS) of UNSMIL reported that, on 18 July 2022, the South Benghazi primary court issued a decision temporarily suspending the Presidential Council decision No. 286. On 7 March 2023, the head of the Law Department under the Supreme Judicial Council provided a legal opinion in response to a request for clarification from the Civil Society Commission of Benghazi. The legal opinion stated that civil society organisations registered in Libya after 2011 were considered illegal. 101. The enforcement of the Presidential Council decision No. 286 as per the interpretation of the legal opinion of 7 March 2023 reportedly led to a campaign of arrests and spread fear amongst civil society organisations in some parts of country. On 9 March 2023, the Criminal Investigation Department raided offices of community, local and international organisations in Sabha and arrested local staff without arrest warrants, reportedly on suspicion or under accusations of spying for the organizations they work for, but without presenting legal 121 122 123 GE.23-15378 https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/11/israel-un-experts-condemn-attacks-against-humanrights-defender-issa-amro. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/04/human-rights-spotlight-libya-must-be-maintainedturk; A/HRC/52/83, para. 73; https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2023/03/globalupdate-high-commissioner-outlines-concerns-over-40-countries. A/HRC/48/28, Annex I, paras. 63–68; A/HRC/51/47, Annex I, paras. 42–43. 63