A/75/44
(CAT/C/55/D/500/2012), F.K. v. Denmark (CAT/C/56/D/580/2014), Asfari v. Morocco, I.A.
et al. v. Sweden (CAT/C/66/D/729/2016), Yrusta and del Valle Yrusta v. Argentina
(CAT/C/65/D/778/2016) and A v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (CAT/C/67/D/854/2017) and
decided to keep the follow-up dialogue ongoing. The Committee also decided to request a
follow-up visit to monitor the lack of implementation of the decision on Asfari v. Morocco,
and to send follow-up letters with a request to accelerate implementation of the decisions on
Aarrass v. Morocco and Ramírez Martínez et al. v. Mexico. Further to that, it decided to
request a meeting with the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Office
and other international organizations regarding the decision on Ramírez Martínez et al. v.
Mexico and with the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Office and
other international organizations in Geneva regarding the decision on Asfari v. Morocco. The
Committee also decided to continue to mention the instances of persistent nonimplementation of the decisions on Aarrass v. Morocco, Ramírez Martínez et al. v. Mexico
and Asfari v. Morocco in its annual report presented to the General Assembly.
66.
Also at its sixty-eighth session, Ms. Racu presented to the Committee an oral report
on reprisals. The Committee received updates regarding reprisals in the context of pending
complaints and follow-up to decisions.
67.
Due to the postponement of the sixty-ninth session, during the period under review
the Committee considered no further submissions related to cases that were being monitored
through the Committee’s follow-up procedure.
68.
As at 15 May 2020, the Committee had closed the follow-up dialogue with a note of
satisfactory or partially satisfactory resolution with regard to 70 communications, out of a
total of 158 communications where it had found violations of different provisions of the
Convention. Additional information may be found in documents CAT/C/67/3 and
CAT/C/68/3.
VII. Meetings of the Committee in 2020
69.
Further to General Assembly resolution 68/268, the Committee is to hold two further
regular sessions in 2020: the sixty-ninth session (13–30 July 2020) and the seventieth session
(9 November–4 December 2020).
VIII. Adoption of the annual report of the Committee on its
activities
70.
In accordance with article 24 of the Convention, the Committee is required to submit
an annual report on its activities to the States parties and to the General Assembly. Since the
Committee holds its third regular session of each calendar year in November, which coincides
with the regular sessions of the General Assembly, it adopts its annual report at the end of its
spring session, for transmission to the General Assembly during the same calendar year.
Accordingly, the Committee considered and adopted the report on its activities at the sixtyseventh and sixty-eighth sessions.
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