A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 105 Para Country Date Type Mandate 81. 25/08/06 JUA WGAD; Indigenous People; TOR; 82. 13/09/06 AL TOR; Allegations transmitted the cell jump up and down for about 20 minutes. On 6 March 2006, he was informed that he was being charged in connection with a fight that had occurred in the area. On the same day, he was produced before a court and remanded in custody for 14 days. However, he was released on bail the next day. Leitanthem Umakanta Meitei, Secretary General of the Threatened Indigenous Peoples Society, Manipur and Spokesperson for the Apunba Lup, a coalition of 34 human rights organizations in Manipur, India. At 4am on 24 August 2006, Leitanthem Umakanta Meitei (subject of earlier communciations in E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.1, Para. 785 and E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.1, Para. 786) was arrested at his home and taken to Manipur West Police Station, where he was beaten, causing him to pass out several times during interrogation. He was also threatened with further acts of torture or ill-treatment. Darshan Singh, aged 34, a farmer from Amritsar, in Punjab State. At 5:10pm on 27 August 2006, he was arrested together with Harbhajan Singh during a police raid on a house near Majitha Road in Amritsar, which was carried out by the police from the C Division of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau. The two men were taken to a police compound run by the C Division in Mal Mandi. On arrival, the officers beat and kicked Darshan Singh and also applied rollers to his knees. They spread his legs as far as they would go until he lost consciousness. They then poured water on his face to bring him round and then continued to Government Response

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