CAT/C/RUS/CO/5 the result that perpetrators are not held accountable. The Committee also regrets that persons convicted of offences amounting to violations of the Convention may have benefited from amnesty. The Committee is also concerned about persistent reports concerning acts of violence against women in the northern Caucasus, including killings and so-called “honour killings” and bride-kidnapping, which constitute violations of the Convention. With reference to its previous recommendations, the Committee remains concerned that no report following the visits to the State party, including the northern Caucasus, carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) have been made public, and that no time frame has been set for the publication of these reports (arts. 2, 4, 11, 12 and 16). The Committee urges the State party to ensure that any counter-terrorism measures taken in the north Caucasus region conform to the Convention’s prohibitions against torture and ill-treatment. The Committee recommends that the State party should; (a) Ensure that all complaints of denial of safeguards, torture, ill-treatment, abduction, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings, including acts of violence against women in the northern Caucasus are promptly, impartially and effectively investigated, that all those responsible for such abuses are held accountable, prosecuted and sanctioned, and that victims of such abuses obtain redress; (b) Ensure that no person found guilty of crimes constituting torture in violation of the Convention benefits from amnesty; (c) Ensure that investigators are able to compel the cooperation of local officials with investigations and that any official who refuses to cooperate is subjected to penalties; (d) Publicize information on the number of unresolved cases of enforced disappearance in the region, and keep family members of disappeared persons informed of the progress of investigations and exhumation and identification of remains. With reference to its previous recommendations and the State party representative’s assertion during the examination of the report that the authorities agree in principle to make public the reports on the CPT country visits to the State party, the Committee urges the State party to publish these reports, including those on visits to the northern Caucasus. The Committee further requests the State party to inform it of its timetable for their publication. Violence against women 14. Despite consistent reports of numerous allegations of many forms of violence against women throughout the State party, the Committee is concerned that there are only a small number of complaints, investigations and prosecutions of acts of domestic violence and violence against women, including marital rape. It is also concerned about reports that law enforcement officers are unwilling to register claims of domestic violence, and that women who seek criminal investigations of allegations of domestic violence are compelled to participate in reconciliation processes. The Committee is also concerned about the absence in the State party’s law of a definition of domestic violence (arts. 1, 2, 11, 13 and 16). The Committee urges the State party to define domestic violence in its legislation and to ensure that all cases of violence against women, including domestic violence, are registered by the police; that all allegations of violence against women are promptly, impartially and effectively investigated; and that perpetrators are prosecuted. The 7