General situation addressed (2014, The Gambia)
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2015-020-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2015
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 13.443182
Longitude: -15.310139
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- The Gambia
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 16 March 2015; 11 May 2015
- Type of record
- General situation addressed
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
The Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions reported that their joint visit to the Gambia early in November 2014
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- early November 2014
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- early in November 2014
- Reprisal information
joint visit to the Gambia early in November 2014 had been conducted in an atmosphere of apprehension and genuine fear among civil society, victims, witnesses and other interlocutors about possible reprisals;
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 27 May 2015
- Government response content
Despite assurances received from the Government that none of the individuals cooperating with the mandate holders would be threatened, harassed or punished;
With regard to the report of the Special Rapporteur on summary or arbitrary executions, the Government expressed its dismay at the “biased manner” in which the report had been presented, stating that the allegations that it contained were unsubstantiated and lacked merit (A/HRC/29/37/Add.6, para. 1)
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0