A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 103 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 Government Response

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