A/HRC/4/33/Add.3 page 25 Appendix PLACES OF DETENTION - INDIVIDUAL CASES 1. The following accounts are based on allegations by detainees while being interviewed by the Special Rapporteur. If detainees requested confidentiality, their allegations are not contained in this annex. 2. By letter dated 10 October 2006, the Government replied to some of the observations and the allegations transmitted by the Special Rapporteur. While the Special Rapporteur appreciates information, including annexes, provided by the Government, he regrets that in most instances it related to the reasons of arrest, and not to the steps taken to investigate the allegations of torture and ill-treatment. The Special Rapporteur appreciates that investigations may be ongoing and requests that relevant information be forwarded to him as it becomes available. 3. The Government informed [apart from the information provided by the Government to the specific cases, below]: that allegations about torture by criminal investigators or prison staff … in the Special Rapporteur’s report are untrue and come from persons with previous criminal records. The individuals in question were detained in correction centres pursuant to court orders issued by public prosecutors of regular courts and after the Department of Public Prosecutions had interviewed them. None of them made any allegations about police torture. The public prosecutor refers anyone who makes an allegation about police torture to a doctor for a medical examination, since Jordanian law prohibits acceptance of a confession obtained under duress. In addition, correction centres do not admit anyone who shows signs of having been tortured, until the victim has been examined by a forensic doctor. It is common for prisoners to make false allegations about torture in a pathetic attempt to evade punishment and to influence the court. Correction centres only admit inmates detained pursuant to an order issued by a competent judicial body, or in implementation of the powers vested in administrative governors under the Crime Prevention Act. I. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE, AMMAN (Visited on 26 June 2006) 4. The Special Rapporteur visited the detention facility of GID unannounced on the evening of 26 June, at approximately 6 p.m. He was permitted to freely inspect the facility but was denied private interviews by the official on duty, and then by Mr. Ali Birjak, the head of the GID’s Counter-Terrorism Unit, who arrived shortly thereafter. Mr. Birjak did however permit interviews on condition that a soldier be present in the cell, reportedly for the protection of the Special Rapporteur and his delegation. Moreover, he clearly stated that this condition was similarly imposed on visits by ICRC delegations. The Special Rapporteur declined the protection, accepting responsibility for any consequences that might arise, explained the rationale for speaking with detainees without a soldier present, and disputed the claim in relation to ICRC. From the detention wing, he strongly protested this clear violation of the terms of reference for the mission by phone to the Assistant Director of GID, Brigadier Ziyad Sharidah, and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. After considerable discussion, and as there was no