A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
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Para
79.
Country
Date
10/03/06
Type
AL
Mandate
TOR;
Allegations transmitted
beat him and deprived him of food. On 26 July
2005, he was taken to K-5 Peravallur Police
Station, where he was put in a room on the third
floor. He was stripped naked and beaten with an
iron pipe, which resulted in a fracture to his right
knee. The officers also subjected him to oral
caste-related abuse and threatened to kill him by
placing a pistol on his forehead. Criminal charges
were filed against him and he was remanded in
custody by Judicial Magistrate’s Court No. Five,
Egmore. He was sent to the central prison in
Chennai. Sekar Arjunan’s mother had previously
submitted a complaint to the State Human Rights
Commission in Chennai requesting them to take
action against the same police officials for killing
her younger son Ramesh. She had refused to
withdraw the complaint, despite being pressured
to do so by the alleged perpetrators.
Maung Maung Oo, aged 40 and Chit Thein Tun,
aged 42. They are both refugees from Myanmar
who work for the Indian-based Burmese Solidarity
Organization (BSO), which works with refugees
from Myanmar in India. On 14 or 15 January
2006, Maung Maung Oo and Chit Thein Tun were
abducted from Maung Maung Oo’s home, in the
town of Moreh in Manipur. The abduction took
place at about 10.30pm and was carried out by
approximately 25 unidentified armed men, who
were dressed in black and spoke Burmese and
the local Manipuri language. The men took Maung
Maung Oo and Chit Thein Tun across the border
into Myanmar. When Maung Maung Oo and Chit
Thein Tun tried to escape, they were severely
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