E/CN.4/2001/66 page 170 estomac. En conséquence, il ne pourrait assimiler la nourriture servie en prison. Le service médical et la direction de la prison refuseraient cependant de lui fournir de la nourriture appropriée à son état. Le 9 juin 2000, il aurait encore perdu quatre kilos et n’aurait pesé plus que 28 kilos. Il aurait été transféré de la prison à l’hôpital pénitentiaire de Dej quelques jours plus tard. Le directeur de cette institution aurait indiqué que, bien qu’ayant regagné du poids, Arpad Tokes continuerait à être dans un état critique et que sa vie serait en danger tant qu’il resterait à l’hôpital pénitentiaire. 863. Par une lettre datée du 10 août 2000, le gouvernement a confirmé qu’il avait été transféré à l’hôpital pénitentiaire de Dej le 14 juin 2000. Il souffre de plusieurs maladies dont une anémie regénérative, une résection gastrique, une bronchite asthmatiforme et un syndrome hippoanabolique. Il est sous surveillance constante et reçoit les médicaments appropriés à son état. Suite à sa demande de grâce appuyée par la Direction générale des pénitenciers, il fut mis en liberté le 25 juillet 2000. Observations 864. The Special Rapporteur regrets that he has received no response from the Government in respect of the report on his visit to the country in 1999 (E/CN.4/2000/Add.3). In particular, he regrets that he has no information on any follow-up there may have been to his recommendations. In respect of them, he wishes to clarify that his recommendation that “non-governmental organizations and other parts of civil society should be allowed to visit prisons” (para. 57 (d)) should be understood, consistent with his standard practice, as applying to all places of detention, especially including police stations. Russian Federation 865. By letter dated 21 March 2000, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information according to which the use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment in the Russian Federation, in particular in relation to the current conflict in Chechnya, is widespread. It is reported that Chechens, persons suspected to be Chechens or suspected of collaboration with Chechen rebels and persons resident in Chechnya are subjected to torture by soldiers of the Russian Federation Forces, police officers, officers of the special police detachments (OMON), State mobile inspection officers, officers of the Department on Fighting Organized Crime (RUBOP), as well as contract workers hired by the army (kontrakniki). 866. The Special Rapporteur transmitted information relating to the conduct of the Russian Federation troops in Alkhan-Yurt in early December 1999 and in the Staropromyslovski district of Grozny in Chechnya between December 1999 and mid-January 2000. Torture has reportedly been carried out against civilians during military operations in the Chechen Republic. It is alleged that numerous bodies of Chechen men who have allegedly been extrajudicially executed by members of the Russian armed forces at times bore distinct marks of torture or ill-treatment, such as multiple bullet-wounds, cuts, bruises, broken limbs and mutilations. 867. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted information alleging that torture and ill-treatment are widespread in several internment camps or so-called “filtration camps”, such as the camp of Chernokosovo, Mozdok camp in North Ossetia and other camps close to Naour,