A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
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Allegations transmitted
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bad and nutrition insufficient. They are allowed 5
to 10 minutes of exercise per day and do not have
access to education. At times, they are being
taken to the Ranaman District police
administration building in Baku, where they are
held in isolation for up to 10 days, get only one
meal per day and are not allowed to exercise at
all. They have been held in pre-trial detention for
more than a year, pending the investigation that
has now been on-going for more than 13 months.
Officials have refused to investigate the
allegations of torture.
inspector, said nothing about any violence,
torture or threat used against him on his way to
the cell. At the same time they did not observe
any injuries on R. B.'s body. Defendant R. B.
explained that he had met with the inspector
on 23 June 2005 in investigative isolation unit
no. 3 and the inspector asked him to give
objective testimonies during court hearings.
After turning down this request, the inspector
grasped R. B.'s right wrist, but committed
neither torture nor violence against him. Thus
the allegations of torture and violence
committed against defendant R. B. were not
confirmed. During the investigation of the
criminal case of R. B., M. G. and D. P., they all
underwent medical examinations, and
according to the forensic medical examination,
no injuries were discovered on their bodies. It
is impossible to draw any conclusions about
whether the "yellowish spot" indicated in R.
B.'s medical card is an injury or not, as no
registration of its pre-existing morphologic
signs had been conducted. The allegations of
violence against R. B. committed by inspectors
carrying out the investigation and by the police
officers of Surakhan District police department
n. 33 on 14 March 2005, were not confirmed
and neither R. B. nor the other defendants and
their lawyers filed any complaints on that issue
with the investigative agencies. Currently, the
Prosecutor's Office is closely following the trial.
Respecting its international obligations, the
State will ensure full, comphrehensive and
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