A/HRC/28/68/Add.1 enforced disappearances of Mr. A and Messrs. Ahmed Mohammed Saleh Al Arab, Mansoor Ali Mansoor Al Jamri, and Hussain Al Ghasra. 39. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Bahrain for its reply, dated 17.02.2014, to the present communication. 40. The Rapporteur takes note of the information provided by the Government that, on the date of the dispatch of the reply, Mr. A and Messrs. Ahmed Mohammed Saleh Al Arab, Mansoor Ali Mansoor Al Jamri, and Hussain Al Ghasra were still in detention, and that their cases were still under investigation. 41. He regrets that, up until this date, the Government has not provided any update on the cases. The Rapporteur moreover expresses grave concern at the fact that the Governement holds no information about Aqeel Abdul Rasool Mohammed Ahmed, and that it has failed, in its reply, to provide any information on investigations or other inquiries which may have been carried out in order to obtain information of the fate and whereabouts of Aqeel Abdul Rasool Mohammed Ahmed. 42. Overall, the Rapporteur finds that the Government, in its reply, does not sufficiently address the concerns, legal obligations, and questions raised in the initial communication, which prompts him to infer that the Government fails to fully and expeditiously cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 25/13, as well as to comply with its obligation, under international customary law, to investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as codified, inter alia, in the Convention against Torture (CAT). 43. In the absence of information to the contrary, the Rapporteur concludes that there is substance in the allegations presented in the initial communication, reiterated above, and thus, that the Government of Bahrain, by failing to protect the physical and psychological integrity of Messrs. Aqeel Abdul Rasool Mohamed Ahmed, A, Ahmed Mohammed Saleh Al Arab, Mansoor Ali Mansoor Al Jamri, and Hussain Al Ghasra, and to exclude evidence obtained under torture or ill-treatment, has acted in discordance with article 15 of the CAT and violated the right of the persons named above to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, as provided by articles 1 and 16 of the CAT. (c) JUA 31/03/2014 Case No. BHR 3/2014 State Reply: 27/05/2014 Allegations of torture and ill-treatment of Mr. A, and use of confessions extracted under such conditions during judicial investigation. 44. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Bahrain for its reply, dated 27.05.2014, to the present communication. 45. The Rapporteur takes note of the information provided by the Government that an investigation has been conducted, by the public prosecution service, into the facts of the crime in which Mr. A has been accused, however, he regrets, that the investigation seems to be based on a erroneous foundation, including evidence obtained under torture or illtreatment. 46. The Rapporteur finds that the Government, in its reply, does not sufficiently address the concerns, legal obligations, and questions raised in the initial communication, which prompts him to infer that the Government fails to fully and expeditiously cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 25/13, as well as to comply with its obligation, under international customary law, to investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as codified, inter alia, in the Convention against Torture (CAT). 47. In the absence of information to the contrary, the Rapporteur concludes that there is substance in the allegations presented in the initial communication, reiterated above, and 11