Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) OHCHR in its report found reasonable grounds to find credible allegations of ongoing abduction, torture and sexual violence by the security forces. The ITJP have legal papers (and in some cases medical reports) for (but did not interview in detail) an additional 5 victims abducted and tortured in 2018 and we are aware of at least 2 more cases with a local NHS mental health practice. Many of the victims of ongoing abduction, illegal detention and torture appear to have been targeted because they have been attending protests asking for information about the fate of the disappeared in the war – often their siblings. UN bodies have repeatedly reported on these ongoing abductions: 17 Gnanasara Thero was convicted of four contempt of court charges by the Court of Appeal on 8th August 2018 including threatening the wife of a well-known A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 2018: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in her report to the Human Rights Council in 2018 said, “The High Commissioner was deeply concerned over serious allegations in foreign media about ongoing abductions, extreme torture and sexual violence, as recently as in 2016 and 2017”. 2017: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in his report to the Human Rights Council said, “OHCHR received credible information from a well-known human rights organization according to which “white van” abductions, and torture and sexual violence, by the Sri Lankan security forces persisted”. 2016: The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez’s report on Sri Lanka in 2016, (A/HRC/34/54/Add.2) said: “…the Special Rapporteur received credible reports of recent (up to April 2016) “white van abductions” by officers in plain clothes believed to belong to the Criminal Investigations Department or the Terrorism Investigation Division”. 2016: The UN Committee Against Torture report in 2016 said,“The Committee expresses concern at credible reports indicating that the practice of so-called “white van” abductions of Tamils has continued in the years following the end of the armed conflict. The Committee notes allegations of this practice documented by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Investigation on Sri Lanka during the period 2002-2011 as well as by non-governmental organizations, which have identified 48 sites where torture allegedly occurred or which were used as transit points to torture locations between 2009 and 2015.”  Impunity for Threats to Families of the Disappeared