Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Measures taken/current situation opposition politicians, and activists and human rights defenders. The largest group was people alleged to have links with the movement run by US-based Sunni cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom the government accuses of masterminding the July 2016 coup attempt.” According to the 2017 OHCHR report on the Human Rights Situation in South-East Turkey, “In the wake of the July 2016 attempted coup, according to the statement of the Minister of Justice, issued on November 22, 2016, legal proceedings, which entailed detentions, legal investigations and arrest warrants, were opened against 92,607 people, of whom 39,378 were placed under arrest. The number of people arrested and detained in South-East Turkey is not known.16 In addition, pursuant to the same report, “OHCHR has seen no evidence that effective and independent investigations had been conducted into the reported killings. Residents who were trying to trace the mortal remains were reportedly taken to the police station and interrogated.” 17 According to families of victims killed at Cizre (South-East Turkey), and as reported by several NGOs, the bodies of an undetermined number of people were completely or partially destroyed in fire induced by shelling and the subsequent rushed demolition of the location of the incident. The subsequent demolition of the buildings destroyed evidence and has therefore largely prevented the basic identification and tracing of mortal remains. Moreover, instead of opening an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the reported excessive use of force, recourse to heavy weapons and the resulting deaths, the local authorities accused the people killed of participating in terrorist organizations and took repressive measures affecting members of their families.18 LLG – TGRLSP 16 17 18 OHCHR Report on the Human Rights Situation in South-East Turkey, July 2015 to December 2016, Paragraph 54. Ibid, paragraph 31. OHCHR Report on the Human Rights Situation in South-East Turkey, July 2015 to December 2016, Paragraph 25. Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 14 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1