AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2016/17

Conservation Foundation. The National
Human Rights Commission of Mongolia
reported that the law on NGOs and other
domestic laws did not fully protect the rights
of human rights defenders.
TORTURE AND OTHER ILL-TREATMENT
Torture and other ill-treatment in detention
centres continued to be widespread. The
authorities frequently transferred detainees
between detention centres or placed them in
centres far from their homes in order to
intimidate them and make their access to
legal counsel and family visits difficult.
1. Mongolia: Falling short − the right to adequate housing in
Ulaanbaatar (ASA 30/4933/2016)
2. Mongolia: 200 people face imminent risk of homelessness (ASA
30/3743/2016) and Further information (ASA 30/4793/2016)
MONTENEGRO
Montenegro
Head of state: Filip Vujanović
Head of government: Duško Marković (replaced Milo
Đukanović in November)
Parliamentary elections in October
cemented the rule of the governing coalition
led by Milo Đukanović; independent
election monitors reported irregularities in
dozens of polling stations.
COUNTER-TERROR AND SECURITY
In January and June, Montenegro resettled
two former detainees from the US detention
centre at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In September, the government signed the
Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe
Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, to
tackle the issue of “foreign terrorist fighters”.
DISCRIMINATION – LESBIAN, GAY,
BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND
INTERSEX PEOPLE
In May, two LGBTI organizations brought a
case before an administrative court against
the Ministry of Interior for failing to guarantee
the right to freedom of peaceful assembly by
allowing the police authorities to ban an
LGBTI Pride march in Nikšić, the second
largest town, three times consecutively. The
organizations’ initial complaint had been
rejected by the Ministry. In June, the court
rejected the applicants’ claims; the
organizations have turned to the
Constitutional Court to request a
constitutional review.
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES
By the end of the year, the authorities had
not acted on the recommendations of the UN
Committee on Enforced Disappearances to
include disappearance as a separate criminal
offence in the Criminal Code. The authorities
also failed to enable access to justice and
reparation for victims. Additionally,
Montenegro failed to ensure that the
continuous nature of enforced disappearance
was recognized in its system of criminal law.
The fate and whereabouts of the 61
individuals still reported missing following the
1991-1999 armed conflicts in the former
Yugoslavia were not investigated.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION –
JOURNALISTS
Journalists continued to receive threats and
media offices were occasionally vandalized.
The Minister of Interior announced in June
that amendments to the Criminal Code would
be introduced to address the prevalent
impunity for attacks on journalists. A draft
had not been submitted by end of year.
The trial of Jovo Martinović, an
investigative journalist detained since October
2015, opened in late October. He was
accused of being involved in the criminal
network he was investigating. Human rights
groups and journalist associations expressed
concern that the charges were motivated by
his investigative work.
REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY
DISPLACED PEOPLE
Over 1,600 refugees who fled to Montenegro
during the conflict in former Yugoslavia
remained without durable solutions. They still
lived in substandard conditions in camps
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