A/HRC/WGEID/125/1
Information from sources
130. Sources provided updated information on one outstanding case, but the information
was considered insufficient to clarify the case.
Other joint letter and reply
131. On 9 August 2021, the Working Group transmitted, jointly with other special
procedure mechanisms, another letter about the adoption and implementation of the
Prevention of Terrorism (Deradicalization from Holding Violent Extremist Religious
Ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, which were published in the official gazette on 12
March 2021.43
132. On 11 August 2021, the Government provided a reply to the other joint letter sent on
9 August 2021.
Syrian Arab Republic
Standard procedure
133. Under its standard procedure, the Working Group transmitted 36 cases to the
Government (see annex I).
Information from the Government
134. On 30 August 2021, the Government of Turkey transmitted information concerning a
case registered under the records of the Syrian Arab Republic, but the information was
considered insufficient to clarify the case.
Observation
135. The Working Group requests information on the steps taken by the Syrian authorities
to determine the fate or whereabouts of the 36 individuals (see annex I). Should their death
be confirmed, the Working Group reiterates its request on the steps taken to identify and
return the remains to their relatives.
136. The Working Group continues to call on the Syrian authorities to immediately stop
and prevent enforced disappearances, search and locate the victims, conduct transparent,
independent and effective investigations into these abuses, with a particular emphasis on the
reported deaths in custody, hold the perpetrators accountable and provide redress to the
families of the disappeared.
Tunisia
Joint allegation letter
137. On 20 September 2021, the Working Group transmitted, jointly with other special
procedure mechanisms, an allegation letter concerning Slimane Bouhafs, a national of
Algeria recognized as a refugee in Tunisia who reportedly disappeared on 25 August 2021 in
Tunis, before reappearing four days later in a police station in Algiers accused of terrorismrelated crimes in connection with his activism.44
Turkey
Urgent procedure
138. Under its urgent procedure, the Working Group transmitted a case to the Government
concerning Orhan Inandi, a national of both Kyrgyzstan and Turkey who was allegedly
abducted on 31 May 2021 by agents presumed to have been affiliated with the Turkish
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See LKA 3/2021. See also http://www.documents.gov.lk/files/egz/2021/3/2218-68_E.pdf.
See TUN 7/2021.
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