E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2 page 55 foot. They handcuffed him to a pole. They are then said to have taken him to another room, where they threatened him that if he did not sign a paper stating that he was homeless and begging in the street, they would detain and hide him in the basement and show him “real treatment”. Around noon, they then drove him to a person who countersigned the paper, allegedly a judge who looked at him through the car window but did not speak to him. They then returned him to the MVD office. At 10 p.m., the officers brought him to a special reception centre in the Kuiluk district in Tashkent, which is reportedly used to detain persons who do not have identification documents and where militiamen are said to be employed as investigators. He told the director that he was not homeless. According to the information received, blood was taken from him against his will. On 9 March, he was reportedly visited by a number of human rights defenders who asked the director to release him. The latter reportedly replied that he had an order to keep Oleg Zarapulov for two months. He was kept in a small cell for five days. In the special reception facility, one-person cells were said to have contained between 8 and 10 people. As other detainees, he was reportedly given food only twice a day (one loaf of bread during the day) and only allowed to use the toilet facilities at 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. Bakhtior Kinjaev, an 18-year-old man, was reportedly arrested on 14 April 2002 in Fergana, allegedly to check his military papers. He was said to have been taken to a padded room without windows in the Altaryk district police station in Fergana. Four men reportedly started beating him, accusing him of the killing of a young girl who had been found dead in the vicinity. He was reportedly kept for seven days without being charged. He was said to have been given electric shocks to his handcuffs, as a result of which he is believed to have experienced heart problems. Every day he was allegedly beaten with clubs, had needles put under his nails, head and feet. On the sixth day, he was reportedly given a blank piece of paper, and told to sign it to verify his signature. Subsequently, the investigators are said to have written a confession for murder on that paper, and he was brought to the prosecutor with a freshly typed confession. When Bakhtior Kinjaev realized this, he was so upset that he reportedly destroyed the computer in the police station. The officers reportedly hit him in the kidneys so that he was allegedly unable to urinate as a result of the pain. One investigator is said to have punched him in the nose. As the pain was very strong, he reportedly punched him back. He was reportedly hit on the head and became unconscious. He reportedly woke up in hospital with two scars on his throat (of three and two centimetres in length). A week later, he was again transferred to the police station where he was asked to sign a new confession, which he refused. He was reportedly transferred to the SIZO in Fergana where he stayed for one month. There, he was no longer interrogated. He was then brought to the psychiatric hospital in Tashkent for five hours. The court proceedings reportedly started on 1 June in the Fergana District Court. At the trial, 33 witnesses spoke against him. He was reportedly given a State-appointed lawyer who told him to admit to the crime, so that he would get out of the colony quicker. His lawyer reportedly did not raise the torture allegations in court, as he had allegedly been paid off by the police. When Bakhtior Kinjaev told the judge about the allegations of torture, the magistrate reportedly ignored them. On 8 June, Bakhtior Kinjaev was sent to the psychiatric hospital for a month.