State party
Date on which the report was due
Turkey
Tunisia
Chile
China
Netherlands
31 August 2001
22 October 2001
29 October 2001
2 November 2001
19 January 2002
Portugal
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Poland
Australia
Algeria
10 March 2002
14 June 2002
24 August 2002
6 September 2002
11 October 2002
Brazil
Guinea
New Zealand
Somalia
Paraguay
27 October 2002
8 November 2002
8 January 2003
22 February 2003
10 April 2003
Malta
Germany
Liechtenstein
Romania
12 October 2003
20 October 2003
1 December 2003
16 January 2004
20.
At the request of the Committee, two members, Mr. Mariño and Mr. Rasmussen,
continued to maintain contacts with States parties whose initial reports were overdue by
five years or more, in order to encourage the submission of such reports. Given the lack of
response from the Government of Togo to the requests of the members, the Committee decided
to consider the situation in Togo as it pertains to the Convention, without a report, at its
thirty-third session.
21.
At its thirty-second session the Committee decided to address a letter to the Government
of the United States calling its attention to the fact that its second periodic report, requested by
the Committee for 19 November 2001, had not been submitted yet. The Committee asked the
State party to submit the report by 1 October 2004. The Committee drew the State party’s
attention, in particular, to article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention, according to which each
State party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent
acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. Finally, the letter indicated that the report
should include updated information concerning the situation in places of detention in Iraq.
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