Recommendation (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.5) The 1996 Compensation Relating to Torture Act is not in line with the Convention’s requirements for effective remedies. Steps taken in previous years (See A/HRC/4/33/Add.2 and A/HRC/7/3/Add.2) 2007: Since 1996, Nepalese police has taken departmental action against 21 police personnel in 11 cases for alleged torture, out of which 6 cases led to prosecutions. Steps taken since December 2007/current situation has been prosecuted for the many cases of serious beatings which occurred in the context of the protests • There have been no independent investigations into the allegations of systematic torture and disappearances in 2003/2004 by the Bhairabnath Battalion, which were documented in OHCHR’s May 2006 report. In December 2007, a site was identified where the body of one of the disappeared may have been cremated. A group of Finnish forensic experts visited the country in January 2008 and assisted local experts in the exhumation of some of the remains. As of early November 2008, however, the results of the exhumations have not been made public Non-governmental sources: torture suspects are not prosecuted or punished. In a few cases, police have been briefly suspended pending an internal inquiry. Impunity for current and past crimes continues. Not a single member of the security forces or the CPN-M has been held criminally accountable or convicted for acts of torture, other ill-treatment or other human rights abuses committed during the conflict. Instead, attempts to grant amnesties for severe human rights violations continue despite the Government’s plans to set up the A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 71 (j) Any public official indicted for abuse or torture, including prosecutors and judges implicated in colluding in torture or ignoring evidence, be immediately suspended from duty pending trial, and prosecuted Situation during visit (See E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.5)