CAT/C/22/D/120/1998 page 15 Notes 1.Letter dated 7 September 1998 addressed to the author’s counsel. 2.Communication No. 83/1997, G.R.B. v. Sweden, 15 May 1998, para. 6.5. 3.Herman Burgers and Hans Danelius, The United Nations Convention against Torture: A Handbook on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1988). 4.Ibid. 5.Ibid. 6.Ibid. 7.E/CN.4/L.1470, 12 March 1979, para. 18. 8.Ahmed v. Austria, Case No. 71/1995/577/663, 27 November 1996. 9.Report of the independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights, Ms. Mona Rishmawi, on the situation of human rights in Somalia, E/CN.4/1999/103, 23 December 1998, para. 154. 10.Communication No. 101/1997, Halil Haydin v. Sweden, 16 December 1998 (CAT/C/21/D/101/1997), para. 6.5. 11.Communication No. 34/1995, Seid Mortesa Aemei v. Switzerland, 29 May 1998 (CAT/C/18/D/34/1995), para. 9.6. 12.Oral statement on the situation of human rights in Somalia, delivered on 22 April 1999 before the Commission on Human Rights. 13.E/CN.4/1999/103, of 18 February 1999. -----