A/HRC/41/53 nor are they in line with the its stated intention to actively promote respect for human rights. 19. Throughout the reporting period, the Special Rapporteur received numerous reports from Eritreans searching for individuals imprisoned in Eritrea. It is difficult to ascertain the precise number of those arbitrarily and unlawfully detained. The authorities do not release information about detainees. It is equally difficult to determine the number of civilian and military official and unofficial detention centres currently in operation. Independent humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, are not allowed access to detention centres to monitor conditions of detention. 20. Some of those in prison were arrested at a young age. One case is that of Ciham Ali Abdu, a national of both Eritrea and the United States of America who was born in the United States and who has been held incommunicado in Eritrea for over six years. She was 15 years old when she was arrested for trying to leave Eritrea without an exit visa in December 2012. Her father, the former information minister Ali Abdu Ahmed, fled the country in late 2012. Ciham, who is now 22 years old, remains in prison at an unknown location, without charge or trial. 21. A number of perceived political dissidents remain in indefinite detention. An emblematic case is that of the 11 former top members of government known as the G-15, whose whereabouts are unknown since their arrest in September 2001. A more recent case is that of Berhane Abrehe, the former finance minister, who was arrested in Asmara in September 2018 after publishing a book critical of the Government. He is 74 years old and is said to be in poor health. His 60-year-old wife, Almaz Habtemariam, was arrested in Asmara in January 2018, after a family member left the country without government permission. At the time of writing, both remain in custody without charge and the authorities have not released information about their places of detention. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is currently examining the case of Berhane Abrehe and has issued provisional measures regarding his detention in October 2018, which the Eritrean authorities have not complied with. 22. Countless individuals have disappeared since being arrested by the security forces. Many of them have left behind relatives who continue to suffer great emotional trauma and are unable to find closure. For example, Teklebrhan Ghebresadick (also known as Wedi Bashai) and Woldemariam Bahlibi, who were reportedly arrested by Eritrean security forces in the Sudan and taken to Eritrea in April 1992, have not been seen since. At the time, both were members of the Eritrean Liberation Front–Revolutionary Council. Family members have searched for them in Eritrea for many years, without success. In a separate case, family members of two brothers, aged 20 and 22 at the time of their arrest, have been waiting for information about their whereabouts since the security forces arrested them 18 years ago. One of the brothers was taken from his family home in Asmara, the other from Sawa military training camp. Ahmedsheik Faras was arrested in Massawa in May 2007 at the age of 80, and died in prison three years later. To date, his family has received no information on the reasons for his arrest, the circumstances of his subsequent death or his place of burial. Many other families continue to wait for the authorities to release information about the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones, and for those responsible for their disappearance to be held to account. 23. The Special Rapporteur strongly urges the Government of Eritrea to comply fully with its international obligations and end the use of indefinite and arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance. She calls on the Government to, at a minimum: (a) Provide information to relatives about the whereabouts of victims of arbitrary and indefinite detention; (b) (c) detention; Provide legal safeguards and effective legal remedy to those held in (d) Allow prisoners to contact their family members and allow regular family visits; 6 Promptly release political prisoners and prisoners of conscience;