Notes a On 20 March 2004, the author’s representatives informed the Committee that they no longer represented the complainant. b The complainant refers to Amnesty’s Annual Report of 1999 in which it reported that those detained in 1997 included five imams who were reported to have cast doubt on the religious credentials of Hassan al-Turabi, Secretary-General of the National Congress and ideological mentor of the Government. c He refers to Amnesty International’s Urgent Action of 21 January 1997. d Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan (E/CN.4/1999/38/Add.1) (17 May 1999). e The State party refers to the Committee’s general comment on article 3 and Mutombu v. Switzerland, case No. 13/1993. f As referred to in the 1999 US Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Sudan. g Gerard Prunier, “Sudan Update: War in North and South”, UNHCR RefWorld-Country Information, p. 3. h DFAT CA500922 of 22 January 1998, CX27237. 131