A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 139 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted same hearing, lasted about one hour. All six defendants face execution if the Court of Cassation upholds the CCCI’s verdict. The men were tortured and threatened in pre-trial detention. Mohammad Munaf Mohammad al-Amin is currently being held by the US armed forces at Camp Cropper near Baghdad airport. He has been in US custody since his capture in May 2005, under an agreement which allows pre-trial detainees awaiting criminal prosecution in Iraqi courts to be held in detention centres run by the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I). He was held for months in US custody as a security internee before appearing before the CCCI. He has subsequently made statements at Iraqi preliminary hearings admitting to having participated in the kidnapping of the journalists, but retracted his confession at trial. He claims that the confession was made after he received threats of violence and sexual assault against him and his family. Mohammad Munaf Mohammad alAmin is due to be transferred imminently to Iraqi custody. Muhammad Munaf Mohammad al-Amin was arrested during the rescue operation to free the journalists, and was accused of posing as a kidnap victim and of involvement in the kidnapping plot. He denies these charges. The other five defendants are in Iraqi custody. Three of them have reportedly been tortured by being beaten with cables and the use of electric shocks on various parts of their bodies. However, their complaints were not considered by the court, and no investigation into the alleged torture is believed Government Response