A/HRC/RES/26/24 (e) The severe restrictions on freedom of movement, including, but not limited to, the arbitrary detention of people caught attempting to flee the country or suspected of an intention to do so; (f) The violations of the rights of the child, including but not limited to the reported forced military conscription of children; (g) The widespread use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the use of places of detention that fall far short of international standards, including underground cells and metal shipping containers; (h) The shoot-to-kill practice employed on the borders of Eritrea to stop Eritrean citizens seeking to flee their country; (i) Any violation by the Government of Eritrea of its international human rights obligations in connection with the collection of taxes outside Eritrea from its nationals; (j) The lack of cooperation with international and regional human rights mechanisms by Eritrea; 3. Reiterates its call upon the Government of Eritrea, without delay: (a) To end its use of arbitrary detention of its citizens, and to end the use of torture or other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment; (b) To account for and release all political prisoners, including members of the “G-15” and journalists; (c) To account for those detained in the aftermath of the takeover on 21 January 2013 of the building housing the Ministry of Information, and to release them or to ensure that they are given a free and fair trial, with full respect for due process; (d) To ensure free and fair access to an independent judicial system for those detained, and to improve prison conditions, including by prohibiting the use of underground cells and shipping containers to hold prisoners, ending the use of secret detention centres and secret courts and the practice of incommunicado detention, and allowing regular access to prisoners for relatives, legal advocates, medical care and other competent and legally authorized authorities and institutions; (e) To put an end to the system of indefinite national service by demobilizing the national service conscripts who have completed their mandatory 18 months of service, and by effectively ending the practice of engaging them in forced labour after such a period, to provide for conscientious objection to military service, and to end the compulsory practice of all children undertaking the final year of schooling in a military training camp; (f) To end the practice of forcing citizens to participate in the militia; (g) To investigate promptly all allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture, rape and sexual abuse within the national service, and to bring perpetrators to justice; (h) To allow human rights and humanitarian organizations to operate in Eritrea without fear or intimidation, and to facilitate the full implementation of the Strategic Partnership Cooperation Framework for 2013-2016 signed by the Government of Eritrea and the United Nations on 28 January 2013; (i) To respect everyone’s right to freedom of expression and to freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief, and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; 3

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