A/HRC/39/41 10. Mexico 33. As reported in the 2017 report of the Secretary-General (see A/HRC/36/31, para. 41 and Annex 47-50), on 4 August 2015 the Committee against Torture, in Ramirez et al. v. Mexico, found a violation of articles 1, 2 (1), 12-15 and 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT/C/55/D/500/2012 and communication No. 500/2012). On 19 May 2016 and 19 September 2016, the complainants submitted that they had suffered acts of intimidation and harassment by the authorities as a result of the Committee’s decision. This allegedly took the form of a campaign aimed at stigmatizing the complainants as criminals and re-victimizing them. On 19 September 2016, the CAT requested protective measures. 34. Given the absence of a response by the Government to the allegations of reprisals of 19 September 2016, the Chair of the Committee met with the Permanent Representative of Mexico in Geneva on 14 May 2018 to discuss measures taken by the authorities to implement the Committee’s decision. The Chair enquired about the outcomes, if any, of the investigation into the acts of torture, punishment of the perpetrators, and protection of the complainants from reprisals reported to the Committee in September 2016. The Chair further inquired whether all four complainants in the case have been released and if they received the remedies requested by the Committee. 35. According to an update received on 25 May 2018, two of the four victims remain in detention and are held in extremely precarious conditions with no regard to their condition as victims of torture and were transferred, without prior notice, to prisons with even harsher conditions. One victim has been diagnosed with a medical condition and is need of treatment, which he has not received. With regard to the two victims that were released, their families continue to face harassment and stigmatization, to the extent that they were forced to change residences. 36. During the meeting with the Chair of the Committee Against Torture on 14 May 2018, the Government committed to provide updated information from the national authorities and to submit its response to the Committee on the measures taken to implement the decision on the case by 14 July 2018. The Committee will meet with the Government during the sixty-fifth session of the Committee from 12 November to 7 December 2018. 11. Morocco 37. In the 2017 report of the Secretary-General concerns were raised about the prolongation of the detention of Mr. Abdul Rahman Alhaj Ali, which the Committee Against Torture deemed likely to be related to the complaint to CAT on his behalf on 22 May 2015 (see A/HRC/36/31 para. 42 and Annex paras. 51-52). On 3 August 2016, the Committee against Torture, in Abdul Rahman Alhaj Ali v. Morocco, found that the extradition of Mr. Alhaj Ali would constitute a breach of Article 3 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT C/58/D/682/2015 and communication No. 682/2015). Mr. Alhaj Ali, a Syrian national registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and seeking asylum in Morocco, was detained in October 2014 in Morocco on an extradition request by Saudi Arabia for “breach of trust” based on previous business relations in Riyadh. The Committee urged the Government to release him or to try him if charges are brought against him in Morocco, as he had been in extradition detention for almost two years, far in excess of the sixty-day pretrial period provided for in Morocco. 38. According to updated information received by the Committee, during his detention in 2017 Mr. Alhaj Ali was twice summoned to the Prosecutor’s office, where he was reportedly notified that the extension of his detention resulted from action on behalf before the CAT. On 5 October 2017, the Committee requested the Government to provide further information, within 2 months, on the measures taken to implement the Committee’s decision in this case. On 28 November 2017, the Committee decided to request a meeting with a representative of Morocco during its sixty-third Session, 23 April to 18 May 2018. On 17 May 2018, the Committee’s Rapporteur on Reprisals, together with the rapporteur for follow-up to decisions on individual complaints under Art. 22, met with a representative of the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco in Geneva to discuss, inter alia, the GE.18-13325 49