A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 108 Para 85. Country Indonesia Date Followup to past cases Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Dalit families in the village are afraid to testify. Elfrianus (Alfred) Ulu (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, para. 94). Government Response By letter dated 9/01/06, the Government reported that he was arrested on 23 February 2005 on brutality charges, and was served a warrant on 26 February. He was held at the police station, and his detention was later extended by the prosecutor’s office. Awaiting his trial, and still under police custody, he was transferred to Penfui Prison due to the lack of the station’s capacity to hold detainees for more than a short period of time. This transfer is a routine practice where the detainee remains under the jurisdiction of the police and not the prison. It was there that he alleged that he was brutally beaten and tortured, as a result of which he lost his eyesight. Following the reported beatings, he was taken to Bhayangkara Hosptial, Kupang, on 26 March 2005. On 2 April, his family reported the incident to the Kupang District Police after which the Director-General for Prisons and the East Nusa Tenggara Office of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights agreed to bear the medical costs. On 6 May 2005, he was taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, to receive further examinations and treatment. There it was discovered that he had suffered from a brain infection which resulted in the loss of his eyesight. He received treatment and was returned to Kupang later that month. The Director-General of Prisons authorised an investigation into the allegations against the alleged perpetrators.The East Nusa Tenggara