It is not appropriate to say: 'We are doing this our own way',

It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.

until the accused are in custody.

Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture to extract confessions and information and the second one is the intimidation of those who make complaints against public officials. In my opinion, there is no doubt that these phenomena are more than allegations, but have in fact considerable basis in reality.

I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security forces of their obligation to use only minimum necessary force.

The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.