A/HRC/34/54/Add.3 freezing of assets) since 2011, has violated the rights of numerous victims to free from torture or cruel or degrading treatment as provided by Article 1, 2 and 16 of the Convention against Torture (CAT). 117. Continued serious concern is expressed about the alleged widespread arbitrary arrests and detentions, incommunicado detentions and prolonged solitary confinement, torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in custody, including children, (sometimes resulting in deaths) as well as coerced extraction of confessions, lack of access to appropriate health care, lack of access to legal counsel and violations of fair trial and due process of law guarantees, imposition of death penalty following unfair trials, and the continued targeting of human rights defenders and civil society organisations (including travel bans and freezing of assets). 118. The Special Rapporteur urges the State to take all necessary interim measures to ensure the full protection of its citizens against any violation of their human rights and, inter alia, to guarantee their rights to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; to guarantee fair trials; and to exclude statements and confessions made as a result of torture from any proceedings, in line with its international obligations, codified inter alia in the CAT and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur calls upon the Government of the Republic of Egypt 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 CAT, and to provide the victims with redress, in accordance with articles 12 and 14 of the CAT. JAL 16/08/2016 Case No. EGY 9/2016 State Reply: None to date Allegations concerning the torture and ill-treatment, detention in inhumane conditions, denial of medical care, and the repeated prosecution under charges of illegal demonstration and belonging to a forbidden group of Mr. XXXXX, a juvenile, who was acquitted four times by a court for the same charges. 119. The Special Rapporteur regrets that the Government of Egypt has not replied to the present communication, thereby failing to cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 25/13. 120. In the absence of information to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur concludes that there is substance in the allegations presented in the initial communication, available via the link above, and is therefore of the view that the Government of Egypt, by repeatedly prosecuting Mr. XXXXX under charges of illegal demonstration and belonging to a forbidden group, despite the fact that he was acquitted four times by a court for the same charges, has violated his right to be free from torture or cruel or degrading treatment as provided by Article 1, 2 and 16 of the Convention against Torture (CAT). 121. The Special Rapporteur notes with great concern the allegations contained in previous communications on Mr. XXXXX’s case, which have been addressed by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (Opinion 53/2015, A/HRC/WGAD/2015/53), concerning the torture and ill-treatment of Mr. XXXXX for the purposes of extracting a confession, his detention together with adults in inhumane conditions, and the denial of access to medical care in detention. 122. The Special Rapporteur urges the Government of Egypt to protect the right of Mr. XXXXX to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and to guarantee his fair trial, including by excluding any statement and confession made as a result of torture from any proceedings, in line with its international obligations, codified inter alia in the CAT and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The 25