A/71/44 Tunisia, the Committee found violations of articles 1, 2 (1) and 11-16 of the Convention. The Committee found that the forcible return of the complainants would not constitute a violation by the States parties of article 3 of the Convention in its decisions on communications No. 583/2014, A. v. Canada, No. 605/2014, G.R. v. Australia, No. 611/2014, P.A. v. Netherlands. 76. The Committee also declared one communication, No. 584/2014, B.M. v. Switzerland, admissible, found four communications, No. 529/2012, J.B. v. Canada, No. 593/2014, I.M. and P.Z. v. Denmark, No. 598/2014, B.R. v. Italy, and No. 709/2015, C.N. v. Denmark, inadmissible and discontinued the consideration of communications No. 527/2012, O.A. v. Canada, No. 528/2012, E.A.U. v. Canada, No. 533/2012, A.K.K. v. Canada, No. 535/2013, J.R. v. Canada, No. 596/2014, S.S. v. Canada, No. 657/2015, J.K. v. Australia, and No. 726/2016, H.D. v. Finland. D. Follow-up activities 77. At its twenty-eighth session, in May 2002, the Committee established the function of Rapporteur for follow-up to decisions on complaints submitted under article 22. At its 527th meeting, on 16 May 2002, the Committee decided that the Rapporteur should engage, inter alia, in the following activities: monitoring compliance with the Committee’s decisions by sending notes verbales to States parties enquiring about measures adopted pursuant to the Committee’s decisions; recommending to the Committee appropriate action upon the receipt of responses from States parties, in situations of non-response, and upon the receipt henceforth of all letters from complainants concerning non-implementation of the Committee’s decisions; meeting with representatives of the permanent missions of States parties to encourage compliance and to determine whether advisory services or technical assistance by OHCHR would be appropriate or desirable; conducting with the approval of the Committee follow-up visits to States parties; and preparing periodic reports for the Committee on his or her activities. 78. During its fifty-sixth session, the Committee reviewed submissions related to nine cases that are currently monitored through the Committee’s follow-up procedure. The Committee decided to close the follow-up dialogue with a note of partially satisfactory resolution with regard to one communication, No. 257/2004, Keremedchiev v. Bulgaria. In that case, the complainants had been awarded compensation for ill-treatment by the State party. The Committee reviewed the information received with regard to eight other cases and decided to keep the follow-up dialogue open. 79. During its fifty-seventh session, the Committee reviewed submissions related to eight cases that are currently monitored through the Committee’s follow-up procedure. The Committee decided to close the follow-up dialogue with a note of satisfactory resolution with regard to communications No. 613/2014, F.B. v. The Netherlands, and No. 544/2013, A.K. v. Switzerland. The Committee reviewed the information received with regard to six other cases and decided to keep the follow-up dialogue open. 80. At the time of the adoption of the present report, the Committee had closed the follow-up dialogue with a note of satisfactory or partially satisfactory resolution with regard to 51 communications, out of a total of 119 communications where it had found violations of different provisions of the Convention. Additional information may be found in documents CAT/C/56/2 and CAT/C/57/3. 16 GE.16-13567

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