General situation addressed
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2010-030-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2010
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: -11.6455
Longitude: 43.3333
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Comoros
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 18 June 2019; January 2020
- 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, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- June 2019
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- June 2019
- Reprisal information
access to several detention facilities and detainees was obstructed. 17 In his January 2020 report, he noted that “after three attempts, and an ad hoc emergency meeting with the authorities, he had been unable to access all persons deprived of their liberty in accordance with the terms of reference of his mandate” (A/HRC/43/49/Add.1, para. 1). According to the Special Rapporteur, many interlocutors, in particular victims, reportedly took personal risks to meet with him (para.7), and he observed an atmosphere of fear and tension when meeting with civil society representatives (para. 21). During interviews with detainees, the Special Rapporteur “noted their perceptible reluctance to speak about ill-treatment, in large part because of their distrust towards the authorities, and also because of their fear of reprisals” (para. 50).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Access denied to UN expert/representative
- 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
- 28 February 2020
- Government response content
at the Human Rights Council, the representative of the Government of the Comoros stated that the problems regarding access during the visit could be explained by two reasons: that awareness of the importance of these human rights issues is not yet present at regional and local levels, and that the lack of understanding and cooperation exhibited by some local bodies was due to a lack of information, which should have been provided by the central administration. The representative noted that there was no manifest desire on the part of the authorities to harm in any way the conduct of the visit.
- 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