E/CN.4/2001/66 page 133 to have recognized the three policemen accused of his death during their trial in December 1999. Since the opening of the investigation, she had repeatedly been visited at home by unknown persons and threatened with physical injury. On 11 March 2000, she is reported to have refused to speak to three persons who had arrived at her house in a car. One of them allegedly pushed her and hit her in the chest, causing her to fall down. Her dogs are believed to have attacked her assailants. She reportedly received medical attention for the injuries she sustained during this attack. She has repeatedly applied to the prosecution office of Alamedin district of Bishkek and of Chui, to the Procuratorate General, and to the Ministers of the Interior and National Security, to no avail. 680. By letter dated 8 May 2000, the Government replied that an investigation was unable to determine who the persons were that had threatened Nadejda Nikolaevna Maslovets. Staff members of the Lenin District Internal Affairs Administration charged with the murder of S. Skromnov were presented to her, however she was not able to recognize the guilty parties. Nadejda Maslovets explained under questioning that she had last been threatened on 11 March 2000 and that visits and threats had ceased since. In order to provide her with protection, in February and April 2000, the duty stations and beats of the police patrol were ordered to move closer to her place of residence. By letter dated 6 June 2000, the Government stated that, during an investigation in December 1999, Nadejda Maslovets had identified the three militia officers who had detained and beaten Skoromov. She alleged that, since then, she had repeatedly been subjected to threats by unknown persons coming to her house, that she had been offered money to retract her testimony and that a vehicle with tinted windows had been parked outside her house. Since mid-January 2000, this had happened on a monthly basis. On 11 March, she was allegedly pushed and struck by one of three strangers. After lodging complaints with various authorities, she was directed by the Bishek Internal Affairs Administration to undergo a physical examination, the results of which were forwarded to the Alamedin District Procurator’s Office for inclusion in a criminal case file. The Bishek Internal Affairs Administration was instructed by the Chu Regional Procurator’s Office to post officers on the approaches to her home and to provide security and surveillance. Senior officers at the Bishek Internal Affairs Administration must review the options again and take immediate steps. Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 681. By letter dated 6 June 2000, the Government replied to all the cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur on 29 November 1999. 682. Regarding Nikolai Skorokhodov (E/CN.4/2000/9, para. 713), the Government responded that he had been escorted to municipal police station No. 4 by traders and a militia officer after committing acts of hooliganism at a market in Chui-Tokmok on the morning of 25 May 1998. At the police station, he is said to have headbutted and shattered a window. He was placed in a cell in the early afternoon. Pursuant to a decision by a judge, he was placed in administrative detention for 24 hours for petty hooliganism. He was released from detention at 10 a.m. on 26 May 1998. On the same day, he filed a complaint with the Chui-Tokmok Municipal Internal Affairs Department alleging that he had been beaten up by unknown persons at the market. A forensic medical examination revealed that he had sustained injuries to his neck which were categorized as grievous bodily harm, i.e. as endangering life at the time inflicted. On 16 July 1998, the city’s Procurator’s Office opened a criminal case on the said complaint.