A/HRC/27/49 Bangladesh 61. The Working Group regrets that no reply has been received to three urgent appeals and one prompt intervention letter transmitted during the reporting period (A/HRC/WGEID/99/1, para. 17; A/HRC/WGEID/100/1, paras. 16–17; and A/HRC/WGEID/103/1, para. 42). It also regrets that no information has been received from the Government in connection with a general allegation transmitted on 4 May 2011, concerning the alleged frequent use of enforced disappearance as a tool by law enforcement agencies, paramilitary and armed forces to detain and even extrajudicially execute individuals (see A/HRC/22/45, para. 33). The Working Group is concerned about the reported harassment against and detention of Adilur Rahman Khan, the Secretary of Odhikar, a human rights non-governmental organization which reports on cases of enforced disappearances and works with the families of disappeared persons (A/HRC/WGEID/103/1, para. 42). 62. On 12 March 2013, the Working Group requested an invitation to undertake a visit to the country. The Working Group hopes that a positive reply can be received soon. Belarus 63. The Working Group regrets that, during the reporting period, the Government of Belarus reported that it will no longer be able to take part in the consideration of three specific cases. The Working Group hopes that the Government will resume its cooperation with the mechanism and recalls in that respect Human Rights Council resolution 21/4,in which the Council urged States to cooperate with the Working Group to help it to carry out its mandate effectively. 64. On 30 June 2011, the Working Group requested an invitation to undertake a visit to the country. Despite a reminder sent in 2013, no response yet has been received from the Government. The Working Group hopes that a positive reply will be received soon. Bosnia and Herzegovina 65. The Working Group thanks the Government for its substantive responses to the general allegations transmitted on 15 May 2009 and 4 May 2011. Concerning the response to the general allegation dated 4 May 2011 (A/HRC/WGEID/99/1, paras. 25–26), regarding the Government’s alleged failure to clarify the fate and whereabouts of the victims of the Korićanske Stijene massacre, the Working Group reiterates its request to be informed of the results of the pending criminal proceedings of those accused of committing the crime of enforced disappearance. 66. With respect to the general allegation sent on 1 April 2014 (A/HRC/WGEID/103/1, para. 43), concerning the effect of the decision of the Constitutional Court in 2013 to order the quashing of the verdicts in the cases of 10 individuals convicted of war crimes against civilians and genocide as a result of an automatic application of a European Court of Human Rights decision, the Working Group reiterates that enforced disappearance is a continuous crime and thus can be punished on the basis of an ex post legislation without violating the principle of non-retroactivity, for as long as the fate or the whereabouts of the disappeared person has not been clarified (A/HRC/16/48/Add.1, para. 57; see also the Working Group’s general comment on enforced disappearance as a continuous crime, A/HRC/16/48, para. 39). 67. The follow-up report on the implementation of the recommendations made by the Working Group after its visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010 (A/HRC/16/48/Add.1) 16

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