E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 17 Todorka Simeonova Ilieva (female), Mariyka Ilieva Dimitrova (female), Rilka Yordanova Dimitrova (female), Ilia Slavov Banov, Boiko Yordanov Nikolov, Petar Iliev Dimitrov, Nikola Kinchev Dimitrov, Angel Slavov Banov, Vassil Slavov Banov, Petar Todorov Iliev and Todor Iliev Todorov were among 40 Rom persons from the village of Topolchane in the Sliven region who were gathering grapes illegally in the village of Glushnik on the night of 3 November 1993, when a police officer from Zhelyu Voivoda and 3 armed men reportedly apprehended them and locked them up in a pigsty in Glushnik. The next morning, after villagers had gathered at the pigsty, Ilia Slavov Banov was removed and allegedly beaten by villagers with fists and sticks. Sixteen other detainees were reportedly removed one by one, tied to a metal fence with their hands held behind their backs and beaten by a police sergeant, the village mayor and villagers. The women detainees were reportedly threatened with rape. A police patrol later arrived and took the detained Roma to an office, where they were eventually released. 67. In the course of a raid carried out by several hundred police officers from various regional police departments and special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on 4 August 1994 in the Roma community in Pazardjik, armed officers allegedly broke into homes and indiscriminately beat the occupants. In one such incident, 10 to 12 armed policemen wearing black masks allegedly entered the home of Aleksandr Assenov Nedialkov, beat him in his bed, outside, and at the Pazardjik Regional Police Department. He was released with an explanation that he been arrested by mistake. A medical certificate described contusions on the head, lesions on both lips and the forehead, and extensive bruising on the shoulders, back, buttocks and thighs. 68. Lyubcho Sofiev Terziev was reportedly arrested near Maglizh in the course of the Pazardjik police action and died two days later in the police station of Kazanluk. Witnesses at his funeral were said to have observed traces of beatings all over his body, including injuries on his penis suspected to have been caused by electric shocks. A death certificate referred to heart failure as the cause of death. 69. The Special Rapporteur also informed the Government that he had received further information with respect to some previously transmitted allegations. Concerns were expressed in particular with regard to alleged inadequacies of the official investigations and measures taken in response to the June 1992 incidents at Pazardjik, in the course of which police officers allegedly beat a number of Rom persons indiscriminately, as well as to allegations of the torture and ill-treatment of Roma in Novi Pazar (see E/CN.4/1995/34, paras. 77 and 78). The source also expressed concern that in refusing to initiate an investigation into allegations of police beatings of Anton Stefan Assenov and Stefan Assenov Ivanov, the Varna military prosecutor had disregarded critical medical evidence and that an appeal to the Chief Military Prosecutor was rejected without a review of all evidence in the case, including the testimony of the victims (see E/CN.4/1995/34, para. 79). Finally, in the case of Khristo Nedialkov Khristov, the source stated that the police had failed to interview witnesses who had alleged that medical staff treating him had been subjected to intimidation by local police and that the Government’s reply stating that the "patient was found in good condition and without injuries on his body" had been contradicted by witnesses who saw him soon after his