A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 131 Para 116. Country Date 30/03/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; TOR; Allegations transmitted KDP abroad confirmed that Qadir is being held in Erbil and is being investigated for "slander, personal harassment and threats" of prominent elected politicians. Qadir has been ill-treated in detention and is in poor health. Fourteen men, all reportedly Sunni Muslims arrested on suspicion of being members of antiGovernment armed groups. They have been detained by the Iraqi security forces since 21 December 2005. The names of the men are Nazim Mohammad Isma’il al-‘Ani, aged 42, oil technician, Nayif Sa’eed Hameed Al-Duri, Thamin Sa’eed Hameed Al-Duri, Sa’doon Sa’eed Hameed Al-Duri, Nazim Sa’eed Hameed Al-Duri, Amir Mohammed Salih Al-Duri, Turki ‘Atia Jabri Al-Jibouri, Faruq Sabbah Mohammed Hassan Al-Karaghali, Mohammed Sabbah Mohammed Hassan Al-Karaghali, Mostafa Sabbah Mohammed Hassan AlKaraghali, Talib Juda Jabir, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim, Riyadh Jassim Mohammed Al-Sa’dooon, and Ehab Riyadh Jassim Al-Sa’doon. On 21 December 2005 at 7 am, Iraqi security forces stormed a house in Hay al-Jihad, West Baghdad, and arrested 16 men, including the 14 named above and Ahmad ‘Abbas Naji Khurshid al-Salihi (brother-in-law of the above-mentioned Nazim Mohammad Isma’il al-‘Ani) and Firas Naji ‘Abid Mikhlaf. The men were blindfolded, handcuffed and taken to an unknown location where they were interrogated, kicked, beaten with metal bars and subjected to suffocation with pillows. While the detailed Government Response