UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Special Decisions or Action Taken Re: Reporting

CCPR A/59/40 vol. I (2004)

CHAPTER III. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 40 OF THE COVENANT

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B. Overdue reports and non-compliance by States parties with their obligations under article 40

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59.	On 27 July 2004, during its eighty-first session, the Committee addressed a letter to the United States of America, requesting it to submit its overdue second and third periodic reports by 31 December 2004 and/or to submit specific information on the effect of measures taken to fight against terrorism after the events of 11 September 2001 and notably the implications of the Patriot Act on nationals as well as on non-nationals (articles 13, 17, 18 and 19 of the Covenant), as well as on problems relating to the legal status and treatment of persons detained in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and other places of detention outside the territory of the United States of America (articles 7, 9, 10 and 14 of the Covenant).

CCPR, A/60/40 vol. I (2005)

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CHAPTER III. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 40 OF THE COVENANT

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B. Overdue reports and non-compliance by States parties with their obligations under article 40

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75. On 27 July 2004, during its eighty-first session, the Committee addressed a letter to the United States of America, requesting it to submit its overdue second and third periodic reports by 31 December 2004 and/or to submit specific information on the effect of measures taken to fight against terrorism after the events of 11 September 2001 and notably the implications of the Patriot Act on nationals as well as on non-nationals (articles 13, 17, 18 and 19 of the Covenant), as well as on problems relating to the legal status and treatment of persons detained in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and other places of detention outside the territory of the United States of America (articles 7, 9, 10 and 14 of the Covenant). On 1 April 2005, during its eighty-third session, the Committee addressed a letter to the United States of America, taking note of correspondence from the State party dated 24 March 2005 concerning the submission of its second and third periodic reports, and welcoming the submission by the United States of America of its report in time for the Committee at its eighty-fourth session. On 22 July 2005, the Committee was informed that the periodic reports would be submitted this year, but not in July 2005. On 28 July 2005, the Committee informed the United States of America that its periodic reports should be submitted by 17 October 2005, starting date of the eighty-fifth session. In the absence of these reports, the Committee would adopt a list of issues on the specific concerns raised in its letter of 27 July 2004 with a view to examining, at its eighty-sixth session, these and any other matters that might be raised in the reply of the Government of the United States to the list of issues.

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