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Atthe36thinMay2006theCommitteeagainstTorturerequestedthattheSecretariatprovide `  itwithanoteontheexperiencetodateofarticle20inquiresaswellaselementsforpossibleinquiry L  inseveralcountries:Colombia,Guatemala,Nepal,TogoandUzbekistan.Thepresentconference 8  roompaperseekstorespondtothatrequest. $  ...   UZBEKISTAN  36.  Belowisinformationwhichrecapitulatesreferencestotortureasacommonorsystematic \ practiceinUzbekistanindocumentswhichtheCommitteeagainsttortureexaminedatits28th H session(29April-17May2002),duringtheconsiderationofthesecondperiodicreportof 4 Uzbekistan,underArticle19oftheConvention,aswellasinsubsequentdocuments.  p 37.  ConcludingObservationsoftheCommitteeagainstTorture:11TheCommitteeexpressed H concernabout"theparticularlynumerous,ongoingandconsistentallegationsofparticularlybrutal 4 actsoftortureandothercruel,inhumanordegradingtreatmentorpunishmentcommittedbylaw   enforcementpersonnel;"   38.  DOCUMENTSEXAMINEDDURINGTHE28THSESSION:  A.TREATYBODIES/CHARTERBODIES: l! (_i_)   ` ConcludingObservationsotheHumanRightsCommittee:12"Takingintoaccount D#! article7oftheCovenant,theCommitteeisgravelyconcernedaboutconsistentallegationsof 0$" widespreadtorture,inhumantreatmentandabuseofpowerbylawenforcementofficials.The %l # Committeeisalsoconcernedaboutthelimitednumberofinvestigationsintoallegationsoftorture." &X!$ (ii)   ` ReportoftheSpecialRapporteuronTorture,SirNigel_Rodley_13,Pages346-350. '0#& (Alsocontainsasummaryofindividualcasesandurgentappeals) ($'  h-(, B.OFFICIALSUBMISSIONSBYNON-GOVERNMENTALORGANIZATIONSWHERE  REFERENCESAREMADETOTHEWIDESPREADPRACTICEOFTORTUREIN  UZBEKISTAN:  (_i_)  AmnestyInternational.CentralAsia.NoexcuseforEscalatingHumanRightsViolations, ` October2002,pag.1-2 L  (ii)  AmnestyInternational.Uzbekistan.TheRhetoricofHumanRightsProtection:briefingfor 8  theUnitedNationsHumanRightsCommittee,June2002:pages7-11. $ t (iii)  WorldOrganizationagainstTorture(OMCT).Uzbekistan:Violence,RepressionandDenial  ` ofEconomic,Social,andCulturalRights,May2002.concludingobservations,pages30-33  L  39.  DOCUMENTSCONTAININGREFERENCESTOTHEWIDESPREAD $  PRACTICEOFTORTUREINUZBEKISTAN,SUBSEQUENTTOTHE28THSESSION:   A.TREATYBODIES/CHARTERBODIES:   (_i_)  ConcludingObservationsoftheHumanRightsCommittee:"theCommitteeexpresses p concernaboutallegationsrelatingtowidespreaduseoftortureandill-treatmentofdetaineesandthe \ lownumberofofficialswhohavebeencharged,prosecutedandconvictedforsuchacts(Covenant, H arts.7and10).14 4 (ii)  ConcludingObservationsoftheCommitteeontheRightsoftheChild:TheCommitteeis  \ "deeplyconcernedatthenumerousreportsoftortureandill-treatmentofpersonsundertheageof H 18years,andthereportedlyinsufficienteffortsbytheStatepartytoinvestigateallegationsoftorture 4 andprosecutetheallegedperpetrators."(CRC/C/UZB/CO/2,2June2006)   (iii)  Uzbekistaniscurrentlybeingconsideredundertheconfidential1503complaintsprocedure.  (iv)  ReportoftheSpecialRapporteuronTorture,TheoVanBoven,MissiontoUzbekistan15:  "TheSpecialRapporteurbelieves,onthebasisofthenumeroustestimonieshereceivedduringthe l mission,thattortureorsimilarill-treatmentissystematic". X  (v)  _ICCPR_,violationsofarticle7inthreeindividualcases: 0"  0  1. ` _Siragev_Ԁv.Uzbekistan,907/2000,01November2005$X"(#(# 0  2. ` _Sultanova_Ԁetal.v.Uzbekistan,915/2000,30March2006$D #(#(# 0  3. ` _Bazarov_Ԁv.Uzbekistan,959/2000,14July2006%0!$(#(# 0   (#(# B.NON-GOVERNMENTALREPORTSWHEREREFERENCESAREMADETOTHE '#& WIDESPREADPRACTICEOFTORTUREINUZBEKISTAN: (#' (_i_)  AmnestyInternational2006report,December2005,pages276-279. |*%) (ii)  AmnestyInternational.SummaryofConcernsintheRegion,January-June2005,pages T,'+ 86-95. @-(, Ї(iii)  HumanRightsWatch,report2006onUzbekistan:"Thegovernmenthasmadenovisible  progressonendingtheuseoftortureinpractice,andonlyminimalprogressonimplementingthe  recommendationsmadebytheU.N.SpecialRapporteuronTortureafterhisvisittoUzbekistanin  2002." t (iv)  HumanRightsWatch:BuryingtheTruth.UzbekistanRewritestheStoryofthe_Andijan_ L  Massacre",chapter"CoercivePressureforTestimony",pages14-34. 8  40.  TheSecretariathascompliedtwosetsoffilesofalltheabovementioneddocumentation,in  ` ordertoallowCommitteememberstoassesswhetherornotthereisenoughinformationfortheCat  L  toinitiateaninquiryprocedurerule75oftheRulesofProcedure.  8  ̄11/CAT/C/_TGO_/CO/1,para.12,18May2006   12/_CCPR_/CO/71/_UZB_,26April2001 \ 13/E/CN.4/2002/76/Add.1,14March2002 4 14/_CCPR_/CO/83/_UZB_,26April2005  \ 15/E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2,3February2003 4