A/HRC/10/12 page 16 69. For the first three sessions of the UPR, similar to the compilation of United Nations information, the stakeholder information for 17 States made no direct reference to human rights defenders. In the information submitted by stakeholders for the other 31 States, references were made to harassment, killings, intimidation, restriction of freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, defamation and media slander, disappearances, impunity, targeting of specific groups, and issues related to the infrastructure of human rights defenders. 70. Various forms of harassment, including intimidation and a generally hostile environment towards defenders and repression, were mentioned with regard to all regions of the world. Such information was prevalent in stakeholder information on African States such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia; Asian States such as Indonesia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; and Bahrain. Threats and intimidation of human rights defenders were mentioned with regard to Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan. Hate speech, defamation and media slander were included in the information on Colombia, Serbia, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan. 71. Forms of violence included in the information submitted by stakeholders regarding human rights defenders included killing of defenders in Colombia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Assaults and attacks on human rights defenders were reported by stakeholders with regard to Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Montenegro, Pakistan and Tunisia. Torture and ill-treatment of defenders were mentioned in connection with Bahrain, India, Romania, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. 72. Restrictions on the exercise of rights to freedom of human rights defenders included freedom of expression with regard to Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. Problems and restrictions relating to freedoms of peaceful assembly and association were mentioned in connection with Ecuador (criminalization of social protest), Morocco, Poland (assembly, campaigns for equality and relating to sexual orientation), Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates. Restrictions on the exercise of rights to freedom of movement of human rights defenders, in particular travel restrictions and the denial of exit and entry visas were highlighted in connection with Israel, Morocco, Tunisia and Uzbekistan. 73. Arrests and detention of defenders were mentioned in the stakeholder information submitted on Ecuador, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tonga and Turkmenistan. Impunity and lack of investigations into cases of violence against human rights defenders figured prominently in submissions on Bahrain, Brazil, Indonesia, Israel, Montenegro, Peru, Romania and the United Arab Emirates. Unfair trials were mentioned with regard to Ecuador and Turkmenistan; while unfounded criminal prosecutions and false accusations of defenders were mentioned in the stakeholder information on Bahrain, Colombia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. Closure of NGOs, excessive or overly burdensome registration requirements and banning of unregistered NGOs were mentioned in the reports on Israel, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan. Close monitoring by security agents and the police and surveillance by plainclothes policemen were included in the stakeholder information on Bahrain, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Tunisia and Uzbekistan. 74. Targeting of specific groups was mentioned in relation to women human rights defenders in Bahrain, Israel and Serbia; indigenous groups in Ecuador; defenders working on issues related to persons belonging to minorities in the Czech Republic (Roma), India (Dalits) and