law or an express statement of intent to institute and sustain a criminal action arising from the offence, and that it is enough for the victim simply to bring the facts to the attention of an authority of the State for the latter to be obliged to consider it as a tacit but unequivocal expression of the victim's wish that the facts should be promptly and impartially investigated, as prescribed by this provision of the Convention." (See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third session, Supplement No. 44 (A/53/44, annex X), Report of the Committee against Torture.)

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