A/HRC/60/62 alleged incidents. Successive Presidents of the Council have continued the practice of addressing the allegations with the permanent representatives of the States concerned. 6. During the reporting period, Member States expressed concern over reported cases of reprisals against human rights defenders and civil society actors in the context of the universal periodic review during the fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions of the Human Rights Council. 7. The special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council continued to dedicate communications, statements and reports to allegations of intimidation and reprisals related to cooperation with them and the wider United Nations system.5 The present report includes new allegations from five communications concerning five States (see annex I),6 and follow-up information on cases and legislation concerning five States (see annex II).7 The mandate holders noted concerns regarding reprisals due to cooperation with the United Nations in nine reports8 and four oral statements9F9 to the Human Rights Council and in one report to the General Assembly.10 They also included references to the issue in two public statements in connection with country visits, 11 and in five press releases concerning four countries.12 8. In terms of the human rights treaty bodies, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Human Rights Committee, the Committee against Torture, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights addressed allegations of reprisals.13 The allegations addressed by the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination during the reporting period are included in this report. The Subcommittee addressed an allegation of reprisal involving negative consequences faced by a person deprived of liberty with whom it had met during a country visit in 2023. The Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture communicated with the ombudsperson of the country concerned during the period and will continue to follow the case. Four treaty bodies issued requests for interim measures to address allegations of risk of reprisals following the registration of individual communications or reiterated requests for interim measures granted previously.14 9. Regarding good practices and prevention, and further to the Guidelines against Intimidation or Reprisals, several committees issued statements on prevention of reprisals at the beginning of sessions or prior to a State Party review. In these statements, the committees 5 A/HRC/58/70, paras. 70 and 71. See communications EGY 6/2024, IDN 5/2024, PAK 4/2024, RUS 5/2024, and VNM 4/2024. All communications mentioned in the present report are available from https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/Tmsearch/TMDocuments. 7 See communications BHR 4/2024, BLR 5/2024, EGY 8/2024, PER 4/2024, TKM 1/2025 and ARE 3/2025. 8 A/HRC/56/46/Add.2, para. 25; A/HRC/56/50/Add.2, paras. 81 and 82; A/HRC/56/65, para. 9; A/HRC/57/44, paras. 29–31; A/HRC/57/47/Add.1, para. 4; A/HRC/57/59, paras. 131–135, 148 and 150; A/HRC/58/53/Add.1, paras. 3, 63 and 64; A/HRC/58/74, para. 30; and A/HRC/58/80, para. 27. 9 See https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1l/k1l5rn0fme, https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k18/k1849bhm3y, https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1x/k1xc6qsgvt and https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11jmjt4aw. 10 A/79/263, para. 29. 11 See https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/housing/statements/20240830-eomstatement-uzbekistan-sr-housing-en.pdf and https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/torture/sr/20250213-eom-senegal-srtorture-en.pdf. 12 See https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/russia-must-free-human-rights-defender-alexeysokolov-arrested-posting, https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/rwanda-must-provideanswers-fate-abducted-brothers-jean-nsengimana-and, https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-andspeeches/2025/01/russia-must-drop-charges-against-human-rights-defender-alexey, https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/01/egypt-special-rapporteur-concerned-about-use-antiterrorism-legislation and https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/04/un-experts-urge-pakistanaddress-human-rights-violations-balochistan. 13 HRI/MC/2025/2, paras. 21–32. 14 Ibid., para 35. 6 3