A/HRC/4/33/Add.3 page 34 (b) High security 42. Sajida Mubarak Atrous, aged 37, an Iraqi national. Following the suicide bombings at hotels in Amman on 9 November 2005, she was arrested a few days later at her apartment by GID officers on suspicion of being a bomber. Her common law husband was among those who had participated and died in the attacks. She was brought to GID Headquarters, where she was detained for 3 months and 20 days incommunicado. During the first month of her detention, she reported that she was subjected to severe torture by the head of GID’s counter-terrorism unit together with other members of the unit. She clearly identified Colonel Ali Birjak, the head of the counter-terrorism unit, in a photo and testified that he had personally participated in the torture. She was beaten on her head and body with a wooden stick covered by a black plastic tape, every day for about one month. She was also threatened with rape. Her body had been covered with black bruises as a result of the beatings. During that period she reports that she was visited by ICRC. She identified the ICRC officers who had seen her injuries. She was finally brought by a female officer to the prison infirmary where she received some treatment. After her detention at GID, she was transferred to Juweidah (Female) Prison, where she described the treatment as good, however, due to her designation as a high-security detainee, she is isolated from other inmates, and therefore expressed loneliness. The Special Rapporteur has subsequently learned that she was sentenced to death in September 2006 (BBC News, “Failed Amman hotel bomber to hang”, 21 September 2006). 43. The Government informed that: ... [she] was a member of a terrorist group that blew itself up at hotels in Amman on 9 November 2005, killing over 60 people and injuring hundreds of others. She was arrested after information was received that she was staying with a person in the town of Salt and that she had an explosive belt in her possession. The public prosecutor notified the State Security Court, which ordered the seizure of the explosive belt and the woman’s arrest. From the very outset, the case was overseen by the public prosecutor, who conducted the investigation himself. It was at his request that she was placed in the detention centre of the General Intelligence Department. Her claims that she was tortured and threatened with rape are nothing but an attempt to obtain a lenient sentence from the Court. On 12 December 2005, a delegation from the National Centre for Human Rights met with her and was satisfied with her treatment. This meeting is mentioned in the 2005 report on the human rights situation in the Kingdom [National Centre for Human Rights, Status Report of Human Rights 2005, p. 11]. VI. PUBLIC SECURITY DIRECTORATE, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT, AMMAN (Visited on 28 and 29 June 2006) 44. The Special Rapporteur visited CID on the evening of 28 June. Upon his arrival the officers attempted to prevent and delay his entry to the detention facilities for the purposes of concealing evidence. The facility has approximately 80 solitary cells, of which all were empty except 3 that he was finally able to enter. In addition, there were 3 common cells, of which 2 were empty. Members of his team, including the forensic doctor, returned there on the morning of 29 June to follow up on the cases he intervened in.