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| Syria Refuses to Submit Torture Report to U.N. | |
| 2012-05-12 | |
| [An Nahar] Syria's authorities have refused to submit a report on torture in the country to a United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... committee scheduled to discuss the situation there next week, its secretary said on Friday.
"There is no assurance that a delegation (from Syria) will come but we have been informed that no report would be submitted," committee secretary Joao Nataf told Agence La Belle France Presse in an email. He added that the meeting would take place on Wednesday as scheduled. The Committee Against Torture is holding its 48th session from May 7 to June 1 when it will focus on a number of countries including Canada, Cuba and Syria. All states party to the convention are required to submit regular reports to the panel of 10 independent experts which then makes recommendations. In November last year chairman Claudio Grossman wrote to the Syrian authorities highlighting the committee's concern over reports of the spread of torture in the country where a bloody crackdown on protesters was unleashed in March 2011. Grossman asked Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... to provide a special report stating the measures being taken to ensure its obligations under the Convention Against Torture were being fulfilled. | |
| Posted by:Fred |