E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2 page 52 Five further persons were brought into his room and were reportedly told to sign a confession. Later that day, he saw 19 other persons in the SNB office, who were charged with the same charges. On the same day, he was said to have been moved to the SNB office in Fergana where an investigation started. He told them the truth about the allegations and the treatment he had allegedly been subjected to at the SNB office in Margilan. On 5 and 6 November, he was reportedly unable to move. Two doctors at the SNB are said to have given him injections, which were reportedly without effect. On 7 and 8 November, doctors were reportedly examining him every hour. On 8 November, another investigator came to his room, who he told that he was innocent. The investigator reportedly stated that if he was not guilty, he would be released. In the evening, a SNB officer from Margilan reportedly came to his cell and asked him to sign a letter stating that he had not been tortured, and that he would not write any complaint letter. Alamidin Khamidov told him that he would say the truth and would not sign. The SNB officer stated that his fate was in his hands and that he would be released if he signed. He is believed to have eventually seen a lawyer and was released. When he returned home, he was said to have been extremely sick and his parents took him to the hospital. There, his parents insisted that the medical certificate contained the correct reason for his injuries. On 10 November, the investigator reportedly complained why he had written that he had been beaten at the SNB office, and told him that there was insufficient evidence against him. Subsequently, representatives from the military procurator’s office and forensic office reportedly examined him. He is said to have received an official letter according to which none was found guilty in the SNB office in Margilan. Doctors reportedly changed the medical certificate to state that he had suffered from a heart failure and rheumatism in detention. Another forensic medical examination was reportedly carried out in Margilan. In December 2001, he was reportedly summoned again to the SNB office in Fergana. He reportedly wrote a complaint letter, to no avail. Ali Muhammad Mamadaliev, a cotton farmer, was reportedly arrested on 4 November 2001 while he was sleeping in a shack on the field and was taken by a policeman of the area to the Margilan SNB office at 4 a.m. At 9 a.m., his father went to the SNB office to find out about his son. He brought some bread which was taken from him, and he was reportedly told that his son would be released in the afternoon. Three other farmers were reportedly released in the afternoon, but his son was not amongst them. His father returned at 9 p.m. On the way to the SNB office, he reportedly saw his son’s friend lying on the street who had allegedly been severely beaten by the police. At the SNB office, he was reportedly told that his son was not there. He then went to the SNB office in Fergana and looked through the files of those detained, however, his son was not on the list. He then reportedly returned to the SNB office of Margilan where he was told that his son had run away as he had committed a crime. His father told the officers that his son would not disappear for any reason. The head of the SNB office in Margilan reportedly told him that he would not find his son. On 5 December 2001, his body was found in a canal near Tarkant town. The medical expert is said to have stated that his neck had been broken about a month earlier. It is believed that he was killed as he would not accept to be labelled as a Hizb-ut-Tahrir activist. A man is said to have claimed that he