A/HRC/39/41 online threats and online gender-based violence, including rape threats. A Twitter account has repeatedly tweeted to Ms Ismail saying that they would rape her and violently harm her if they saw her on the road. The special procedures expressed concern that the investigations launched against her may constitute acts of reprisals for her cooperation with the Human Rights Council, and for her human rights work through the exercise of her right to freedom of expression. 72. . The Government addressed the allegations on 23 July 2018 and confirmed that the Maldives police service launched a criminal investigation against Ms Ismail for allegations of attempting to disrupt the religious unit of the citizens of Maldives and conversing and acting in a manner likely to cause religious segregation amongst the people. After completing the investigation, the police forwarded the case to the Prosecutor General’s office where the Office determined that they could not find enough grounds to pursue a criminal charge against Ms Ismail or to have the charge proven in a court of law. The case has since been filed by the police. With regard to the allegations of death threats and intimidation through social media, a police investigation is ongoing and the case is being treated as serious, but the investigation is facing difficulties in obtaining the information because the Facebook and Twitter accounts were fake. The Government also reported that Ms Ismail is no longer being provided with personal security services by the Internal Security Command of the Maldives Police Service pursuant to her request in writing of 11 March 2018. 17. Mali 73. According to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), there have been cases of reprisals perpetrated by state actors as well as non-state armed groups against individuals who collaborate with the United Nations. 12 Intimidation and death threats are strategies that have been used by terrorist and extremist armed groups to threaten populations for any collaboration with national and international forces as well as State actors, including MINUSMA. 74. On 26 October 2017, the chief of Boulkessi village (close to the Burkina Faso border, Mondoro commune, Douentza cercle, Mopti region) who is a source of information for the MINUSMA Human Rights and Protection Division, reported that he had received threats relating directly to his cooperation with them regarding an investigation into allegations of extra-judicial executions committed by Forces Armées Maliennes (FAMa). It is alleged that he received three threatening phone calls from unknown callers whose voices were disguised, and who referred to his collaboration with the investigation. The chief had reported the location of a mass grave containing bodies of four individuals killed by armed forces in an extrajudicial execution then he began to receive these threats. 75. On 2 December 2017, six unidentified armed elements shot and killed the SecretaryGeneral of the Mayor of Dioungani commune (Koro cercle, Mopti region), and it is believed that the victim may have been targeted for being an informer to the armed forces and/or international forces, including MINUSMA. At the time of writing an investigation was ongoing. 76. Between 9 and 11 April 2018, MINUSMA conducted a special mission to Ménaka to meet with representatives of civil society and victims of human rights abuses during “counter-terrorism operations” conducted by elements of the Mouvement pour le Salut de l’Azawad (MSA) and the Groupe autodéfense touareg Imghad et alliés (GATIA), in the region since June 2017. The village chief of Akabar who met with the MINUSMA team reported that on 13 April 2018 he was contacted by the MSA Chief of Staff and was questioned and intimidated because of his cooperation with MINUSMA. 18. Morocco 77. In a decision of 15 November 2016 (CAT/C/59/D/606/2014) the Committee against Torture found that Morocco was responsible for violations of Art. 1 and 12 to 16 of the Convention against Torture in the case of Naâma Asfari v. Morocco, in which Mr. Ennaâma Asfari, a Sahrawi human rights defender currently in detention, was the 12 32 MINUSMA, “Malgré la mise en œuvre de l’Accord pour la paix, la situation des droits de l’homme demeure préoccupante au Mali, Bamako, le 1er février 2018”. GE.18-13325