A/HRC/28/68/Add.1 506. Le Rapporteur a pris connaissance de l’explication exhaustive du gouvernement en réponse aux préoccupations, obligations légales et questions soulevées dans la communication initiale. Il prend note de l’information fournie par le gouvernement selon laquelle M. Ahmed n’a pas été maltraité et a accès à son avocat et à une supervision médicale. 507. En outre, le gouvernement s’est assuré que M. Ahmed a régulièrement accès à une supervision médicale et a gardé M. Ahmed sous traitement médical suite à sa grève de la faim, entre le 19 décembre 2013 et le 7 janvier 2014. 508. Dans sa réponse, le gouvernement suisse déclare que les informations médicales et judiciaires concernant ce cas sont considérées par la loi suisse comme étant couvertes par le droit à la vie privée et ne peuvent être fournies au Rapporteur spécial que si ce dernier fournit la preuve du consentement de M. Ahmed à ce que ces informations soient transmises. 509. Le Rapporteur spécial va s'efforcer d’obtenir ce consentement et continuera à être en contact avec le gouvernement suisse avant d’exprimer son opinion sur le fait de de savoir si le droit de M. Ahmed à l’intégrité physique a été violé. Syrian Arab Republic (a) JUA 20/01/2014 Case No. SYR 1/2014 State Reply: 03/02/2014 Allegations of denial of access to food, safe drinking water, medicines and medical care for persons detained in Aleppo Central Prison, as well as conditions amounting to arbitrary detention and inhumane treatment of detainees, in the context of the ongoing armed conflict. 510. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Syrian Arab Republic for its reply, dated 03.02.2014, to the present communication. 511. The Rapporteur welcomes the steps taken by the Syrian Government to assure minimum detention conditions for prisoners in Aleppo Central Prison. However, he regrets that the government has not been able to assure that all prisoners have access to food, drinking water, medicine and medical care and are free from arbitrary detention. 512. The Rapporteur hence finds that the Government’s reply fails sufficiently to address the concerns raised in the initial communication. The Government therefore fails fully and expeditiously to cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 25/13, as well as to comply with its obligation, under international customary law, to refrain from inflicting torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment to any person. It fails as well to investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as codified, inter alia, in the Convention against Torture (CAT). 513. In absence of information to the contrary, the Rapporteur concludes that the allegations presented in the initial communication about inhumane conditions in Aleppo Central Prison have been substantiated. The Government of Syria, by failing to prevent arbitrary detention and assure minimum standards of detention of the persons detained in Aleppo Central Prison, has violated their right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, as provided by articles 1 and 16 of the CAT. (b) JUA 22/01/2014 Case No. SYR 2/2014 State Reply: 31/03/2014 Allegations concerning the case of Mr. Akram Raslan. 514. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Syrian Arab Republic for its reply, dated 31.03.2014, to the present communication. 86