A/HRC/41/41/Add.1 research and campaigns were reportedly forced to stop and a number of staff were asked to resign. 72. The Special Rapporteur notes that the above-mentioned foreign funding restrictions take place in the context in an increased usage of this type of legislation globally. He stresses that international NGOs receive considerable portions of their funding from fundraising efforts abroad, and that organisations should be free to apportion resources collected globally without excessive domestic control over their financial flows. The Special Rapporteur further highlights that foreign funding regulations, and by extension the freezing of organisations’ bank accounts as a result of these regulations, has serious effects on beneficiary communities who could otherwise avail of the important services which these organisations provide. VI. Europe and Central Asia Belarus 73. JAL Case no: BLR 2/2019 (Belarus), sent on 22 March 2019, reply received on 16 May 2019 (no translation available). Alleged judicial harassment against Mr. Uladzimir Vialičkin, a human rights defender and member of the non-governmental organisation “Viasna” and Mr. Vital Kazak, environmental rights defender, as well as the alleged arbitrary detention of Mr. Aliaksandr Kabanaŭ, environmental rights defender and blogger, for their participation in peaceful protests against the construction of a battery plant in Brest. Denmark 74. JAL Case no: DNK 2/2018 (Denmark), sent 20 December 2018, no reply requested.Allegations concerning the case of Mr. Dennis Christensen, a Danish citizen, and a member of the religious minority Jehovah’s Witnesses, detained on 25 May 2017, in Oryol, Russian Federation, and who remains in pre-trial detention, reportedly until 1 February 2019. France 75. JAL Case no: FRA 2/2019 (France), sent on 11 February 2019, reply received on 11 April 2019.Allégations d’usage excessif de la force au cours de diverses manifestations du mouvement des «gilets jaunes», organisées depuis mi-novembre 2018, ayant occasionné des blessures de plusieurs manifestants, mais aussi des arrestations et des violations aux droits à la liberté d’expression et de réunion pacifique. Russia 76. JAL Case no: RUS 15/2018 (Russia), sent on 26 July 2018, reply received on 4 October 2018. Allegations concerning the detention of five Scientologist leaders in St. Petersburg; Ms. Anastasia Terentieva, Ms. Galina Shurinova, Mr. Ivan Matsitskiy, Ms. Konstancia Esaulkova and Mr. Sakhib Aliev and the Government’s refusal to register Scientology churches as religious organisations in the Russian Federation. 77. JAL Case no: RUS 19/2018 (Russia), sent on 14 September 2018, reply received on 5 October 2018. Allegations concerning the continued criminalisation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian Federation. 78. JAL Case no: RUS 22/2018 (Russia), sent 20 December 2018, reply received on 16 January 2019. Allegations concerning the arbitrary detention of Mr. Dennis Christensen, a Danish national and member of the religious minority Jehovah’s Witnesses, by armed police and agents of the Federal Security Service; the continued criminalisation of members 15