A/HRC/44/60 campaigns or restrictions on freedom of movement, free expression and peaceful assembly and restrictive regulatory frameworks11. 10. Israeli authorities persisted in their use of measures to obstruct human rights defenders’ work and narrow the space for advocacy and litigation. On 19 September, Israeli Security Forces raided the offices of Addameer, a human rights organization dedicated to defending and representing Palestinian prisoners, in Ramallah, and confiscated laptops and memory cards as well as files and publications. Israel continued to impose movement restrictions in the form of travel bans and visa denials, and continued its campaign of public stigmatization of human rights organizations. In November 2019, a field researcher for B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, was arrested for videotaping a protest against an Israeli West Bank settlement outpost,12 and the field researcher for Amnesty International received a punitive travel ban when he attempted to leave the West Bank to Jordan through the Allenby Bridge.13 11. On 25 November 2019, the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, was expelled from Israel after the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Government’s decision to not renew his visa. Shakir was expelled following a 2017 amendment to the Entry to Israel Law, which allows the denial of entry to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory to anyone who calls for a boycott of Israel as defined in the Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel through Boycott Law of 2011. Israel annulled Mr. Shakir’s visa on the grounds that he had supported the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) in the past, and over allegations that he continued to do so through his work with Human Rights Watch. C. Products from Israeli Settlements 12. Several important developments with regards to labelling or banning of products produced by Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory were noted since the last report. On 12 November 2019, the European Court of Justice ruled14 that products from Israeli settlements must indicate they are a product originating from a settlement, not as a ‘product of Israel’. The ruling noted that the information on the products must enable the consumers to make an informed choice, which also includes social and ethical considerations. The Court underlined that the European Union has committed itself to the strict observance of international law, including the UN Charter. The ruling by the European Court of Justice follows a similar judgment15 of 29 June 2019 in Kattenburg v. Canada by the Federal Court of Canada, in which the Court noted that labels of wines produced in West Bank settlements stating to be ‘Products of Israel’ are ‘false, misleading and deceptive16. The Government of Canada is appealing the decision. 13. The Irish Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill, No.6 of 2018 is a proposed law that would make it an offense for a person ‘to import or sell goods or services originating in an occupied territory or to extract resources from an occupied territory in certain circumstances’ 17 . In October 2019, the municipality of Oslo, Norway’s capital, adopted a decision to ban products from Israeli settlements and thus became the sixth municipality in the country to effectively ban products and services linked to Israeli settlements from public contracts18. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 4 11.11.11, Occupation and Shrinking Space. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-idf-soldiers-arrest-b-tselem-researcher-who-filmedprotest-against-w-bank-outpost-1.8069542. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/israel-opt-amnesty-staff-member-faces- punitivetravel-ban-for-human-rights-work/. http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62018CJ0363&lang1=en&type=TXT&ancre=. https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/419068/index.do. https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/419068/index.do . https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/6/eng/initiated/b0618s.pdf . https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191029-norways-capital-oslo-bans-israel-settlement-goodsservices/.