A/HRC/25/60 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with Council resolution 16/23. 2. The Special Rapporteur’s report of his country visit to Ghana is contained in document A/HRC/25/60/Add.1. A/HRC/25/60/Add.2 contains observations made by the Special Rapporteur on cases sent to Governments between 1 December 2012 and 30 November 2013 as reflected in the communication reports A/HRC/23/51, A/HRC/24/21 and A/HRC/25/74. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Upcoming country visits and pending requests 3. The Special Rapporteur plans to visit Mexico from 21 April to 2 May 2014 and Thailand from 4 to 18 August 2014. He also plans to visit Georgia and Guatemala in 2014 to 2015 and is engaged with the respective Governments to find mutually agreeable dates. He also notes with appreciation an outstanding invitation to visit Iraq. The Special Rapporteur, with support from his Anti-Torture Initiative project, plans to conduct followup visits to Tunisia and Morocco in 2014. 4. The Special Rapporteur has reiterated his request for an invitation by the Government of the United States of America to visit the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on conditions that he can accept. His request to visit U.S. prisons on the mainland, renewed on 3 October 2013 and 3 March 2014, is still pending. 5. After the second postponement of his planned visit to Bahrain, the Special Rapporteur has reiterated his request that the Government suggest new dates. This request is still pending. B. Highlights of key presentations and consultations 6. On 18 October 2013, the Special Rapporteur held a community dialogue with the families of California prisoners in solitary confinement in Los Angeles, United States and delivered a speech at the University of California at Berkeley entitled “The Intersection of Solitary Confinement and International Human Rights.” 7. On 22 October 2013, the Special Rapporteur presented his interim report (A/68/295) to the General Assembly and participated in a side event on the “Review of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.” He also met with representatives of the Permanent Mission of Brazil, Denmark and Ghana. 8. On 28 October 2013, the Special Rapporteur submitted a written statement and testified during a public hearing on the human rights situation at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. 9. On 4 November 2013, the Special Rapporteur participated in an expert consultation on the use of torture-tainted information by executive agencies organised by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) in Geneva, Switzerland. 10. On 5 November 2013, the Special Rapporteur met with the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. 3