A/HRC/45/13/Add.2 (b) Ensure that enforced disappearance of any duration, including shortterm enforced disappearance, is criminalized; (c) Provide training on enforced disappearance to legal professionals; (d) Reassign the function of investigating enforced disappearances and cases of torture from the State Committee for National Security to a law enforcement agency; (e) Ensure that legal provisions include an enforceable right for victims of enforced disappearance to receive full reparation, including compensation, satisfaction, restitution, rehabilitation and guarantees of non-repetition; (f) Ensure that the new legal guarantees on notification and registration are systematically implemented in practice, including by: (i) Conducting extensive training and awareness-raising activities on the guarantees among legal professionals, law enforcement officials and the public; (ii) Informing all law enforcement officials that delays in notifications and the falsification of records will not be tolerated and that such delays may amount to the crime of enforced disappearance; (iii) Extending video registration; (iv) Systematically investigating all cases in which families have not been notified or in which registration records have been falsified and sanctioning perpetrators and consider providing free legal aid for use in such cases; (g) Fully implement the recommendations made by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment following its 2018 visit; (h) Undertake further efforts to search for those missing from the southern regions since 2010 and complete the identification of remains; (i) Ensure effective implementation of the principle of non-refoulement with respect to individuals, including those arriving in an irregular manner, in cases where there are substantial grounds to believe that, if deported or refused entry, they may be at risk of enforced disappearance; (j) Conduct training and awareness-raising sessions for government officials on the non-refoulement principle; (k) Ensure that all the views, recommendations and conclusions of international human rights bodies are implemented, including in relation to the case of Mr. Askarov. 10

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