Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) Centre for Justice and Change There is no clear order given to stop surveillance, intimidation and harassment. It is still prevalent but not reported. After the political turmoil of after 26th October 2018, it took an increase when Mahinda Rajapakshe was appointed Prime Minister. It is only an indicator where this could lead. The level depends on who is in power. Families of the Disappeared (FoD) There was unofficial information according to whicha circular had been sent to the relevant officials by the President. But no any other news was received. ICJ: While there is no public information on such orders being issued; surveillance, threats, intimidation and harassment of families of the disappeared and civil society activists working on the issue of disappearance have continued to date. A 2018 report by Adayalam Center For Policy Research states that surveillance of families of the disappeared who have been protesting in the Northern Province since February 2017 has continued in several forms including photographing, videoing, telephoning and otherwise questioning. Intimidation is particularly prevalent among women participating in such protests.8 The interim report of the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) in Paragraph 19 also noted with grave concern the continuing multiple forms of harassment experienced by the families of the missing and the disappeared.9 ITJP This has not happened. Accounts from survivors of torture in a UK based psychosocial group demonstrate that several of their families have been recently threatened in Sri Lanka regarding any attempt to demand their rights, including the search for the truth in respect of the enforced 8 9 Dharsha Jegatheeswaran, Situation Brief No. 2: Surveillance, Harassment and Intimidation of Families of the Disappeared in the North and East, Adayalam Centre for Policy Research, August 2018 http://adayaalam.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ACPR-Situation-Brief-No.-2-Surveillance-Harassment-and-Intimidation-ofFamilies-of-the-Disappeared-in-the-North-East.pdf See Interim Report of the Office of Missing Persons, August 2018, Available at https://www.news.lk/images/Master_Document_Clean_Document_28_August0.pdf A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 10 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2