COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE POSTPONES REVIEW OF REPORT OF TOGO AFTER DELEGATION DOES NOT SHOW UP
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture has decided to postpone its consideration of the initial report of Togo, which it was scheduled to start this morning, due to the absence of a government delegation from that country.
The Committee Chairperson said that although Togo had been willing to appear before the Committee, the current situation in Togo and the prevailing confusion seemed to have prevented the Government from sending a representative from the capital to introduce the report and to answer questions raised by the Experts.
Togo is among the 139 States parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
After the short public meeting, the Committee met in private to examine individual communications. When the Committee reconvenes at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 4 May, it is scheduled to take up the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Canada (CAT/C/55/Add.8 and CAT/C/81/Add.3).
For use of the information media; not an official record
