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- 117. When the Committee examined this case at its 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Sessions, it made a number of recommendations to the Governing Body, in its 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th and 30th Reports, approved respectively by the Governing Body at its 134th Session (March 1957), 135th Session (May-June 1957), 137th Session (October-November 1957), 138th Session (March 1958) and 140th Session (November 1958).
- 118. In particular, at its 20th Session, the Committee, after considering the latest information then received from the Government with respect to progress made under the review procedure applicable to detention cases in reducing the numbers of those-trade unionists and others-detained, recommended the Governing Body:
- (a) to thank the Government for the information which it has been good enough to furnish and to note that the number of the trade unionists (mentioned in the complaints) detained had been reduced to 24 by July 1958, but that subsequent deterioration in the situation has resulted in another 26 being detained once again;
- (b) to reaffirm the importance which it attaches to the principle that a fair trial should be afforded at the earliest possible moment to any such persons who continue to be detained, and to request the Government to keep the Governing Body informed concerning any legal or judicial proceedings which may be instituted and the results of such proceedings and also as to further releases of detained trade unionists which may take place by virtue of the application of the review procedures
- 119. On 5 May 1959 the Ministry of Labour and National Service of the United Kingdom addressed a letter to the Director-General of the I.L.O in which it stated that, as a result of the changed situation in the island, all the trade unionists who were detained have been released.
The Committee's recommendations
The Committee's recommendations
- 120. In these circumstances the Committee recommends the Governing Body to note with satisfaction the release of all the trade unionists who had formerly been detained in Cyprus.
