A/RES/47/133 Page 6 impede the investigation. 2. Each State shall ensure that the competent authority shall have the necessary powers and resources to conduct the investigation effectively, including powers to compel attendance of witnesses and production of relevant documents and to make immediate on-site visits. 3. Steps shall be taken to ensure that all involved in the investigation, including the complainant, counsel, witnesses and those conducting the investigation, are protected against ill-treatment, intimidation or reprisal. request 4. criminal to The all findings persons investigation. of such concerned, an investigation unless doing so shall would be made available jeopardize an upon ongoing S. Steps shall be taken to ensure that any ill-treatment, intimidation or reprisal or any other form of interference on the occasion the lodging of a complaint or during the investigation procedure is appropriately punished. 6. An investigation, in accordance with the above, should be able to be conducted for as long as enforced disappearance remains unclarified. Article in a of procedures described the fate of the victim 14 Any person alleged to have perpetrated an act of enforced disappearance particular State shall, when the facts disclosed by an official investigation so warrant, be brought before the competent civil authorities that State for the purpose of prosecution and trial unless he has been extradited to another State wishing to exercise jurisdiction in accordance with the relevant international agreements in force. All States should take any lawful and appropriate action available to them to bring to justice all persons presumed responsible for an act of enforced disappearance, who are found to be within their jurisdiction or under their control. Article of of 15 The fact that there are grounds to believe that a person has participated in acts of an extremely serious nature such as those referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, above, regardless of the motives, shall be taken into account when the competent authorities of the State decide whether or not to grant asylum. Article 1. article 4, during the State, in 2. and 16 Persons alleged to have committed any of the acts referred to in paragraph 1, above, shall be suspended from any official duties investigation referred to in article 13 above. They not by shall any be tried other only special by the tribunal, 3. No privileges, immunities or such trials, without prejudice to the competent in ordinary particular courts military special exemptions shall be provisions contained in the in each courts. admitted Vienna