I will not focus on the protectorate in that sense, but the fact remains that, yes, there are reports of quite capricious actions by the authorities on various elements of public acts or freedoms. If there are reports that a certain group that assembled in a house to worship wasn't harassed, we get a similar report around the same time at another location that they were harassed. There is capriciousness in the way authorities act.
But by and large, yes, the reports are that people are afraid to assemble and people are afraid to speak out freely. People are afraid in many different ways. Dissident voices, dissident behaviour, or dissident speech, all of that is diminished by a climate of fear.