A large number of persons taken involuntarily by security forces were being held incommunicado at unknown locations. other ill-treatment, and contains a limitation clause of 35 days. Article 24 (2) of the Interim Constitution of 2007 provides for immediate access to legal counsel. Section 24 (3) stipulates that detainees ought to be presented before a judge within 24 hours of their arrest. Non-governmental sources: Although incommunicado detention is less common now than during the conflict, it has reappeared in the recent past in connection with detained individuals accused of belonging to armed groups. OHCHR has documented numerous cases of illegal detention of suspected members of armed groups. Police regularly deny that suspected armed group members are in police custody, and have held individuals incommunicado for multiple days before acknowledging that they are in detention or without granting access to organizations such as OHCHR or the National Human Rights Commission. Police continue to keep inaccurate records of detention in which they falsify the date of arrest. Non-governmental sources: Although incommunicado detention is less common now than during the conflict, unacknowledged detention and failure to observe court orders regarding releases, particularly by the Armed Police Force (APF), continue to occur. Often, after detaining an individual incommunicado for several days, the police subsequently record the arrest date as the day on which this person was finally presented in court. Systematic incommunicado detention of political detainees ended with the ceasefire in April 2006; however there are still some cases of incommunicado detention A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 116 c) incommunicado detention made illegal, and persons held incommunicado released without delay Commission, a High Level Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a High Level Commission for State Restructuring, a Commission on Disappearances, and a Land Reforms Commission. Beyond the reference to the appointment of a TRC and a Commission on Disappearances, the CMP remained silent in relation to accountability for past human rights abuses.

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