E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2 page 37 stating that she had talked to him, that he had confessed and that he had not been beaten. When Dmitry Chikunov asked her when she had seen him, she stated that she could not remember as she had too many cases. According to the information received, he replied that this was the first time he saw her. Tamara Chikunova reportedly filed a complaint against the lawyer who subsequently lost her right to practice. Dmitry Chikunov was eventually sentenced to death. On 30 June 1999, the United Nations Human Rights Committee is reported to have requested a moratorium on the execution to consider the case (interim measures). However Dmitry Chikunov was executed on 10 July 1999. The news was reportedly given to his mother as she went to visit him in Tashturma on that same day. On a visit on 9 July, she had allegedly been told by the prison guards that she could not see him and should come back the next day. The two main investigators in the case, who had reportedly led the torture of Dmitry Chikunov and who had harassed Dmitry Chikunov’s family, have reportedly been promoted. One of them, who is now said to be the head of the operative department of internal affairs of the Tashkent oblast, has reportedly been promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and the other is now said to be working for the General Procurator’s office. Mamadjanov Rahmatillo Hamidovich, a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, reportedly came to the Margilan City SNB Office on 9 May 1999 to ask for pardon following a speech by the President of the Republic according to which all members of non-traditional religious groups who repent would be forgiven. It is believed that he was immediately seriously beaten and transferred to the SIZO cell. Later that year, he was reportedly sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment despite the fact that he raised torture allegations during his trial and that he had asked for pardon. It is reported that he was detained at colony 64/29. As a result of the treatment he was allegedly subjected to, his liver could not function properly anymore. According to the information received, he died in Margilan City Hospital on 26 November due to a liver failure. Vasgen Vladimirovich Arutunjanz was reportedly arrested in July 1999 by criminal investigators of the RUVD of the Iakkasarai region on suspicion of murdering two people. After being taken to a detention facility in Tashkent, Vasgen Vladimirovich Arutunjanz was allegedly severely beaten in order to make him confess committing the crimes, which he refused to do. It is alleged that he was beaten on his heels and in the kidney area. It is also alleged that he was kicked and beaten with a baton on his head. At the medical unit of Tashturma, he was reportedly given medical aid. As a result of the continuing beatings, he had to undertake an abdominal surgery in September 2002. Other results of the beatings were allegedly breathing problems and head injury. After being convicted with murder and sentenced to death, Vasgen Vladimirovich Arunjanz spent 1 year and 10 months on the death row. Because of the situation, his father is said to have committed suicide. At the time of writing, it was not known whether Vasgen Vladimirovich Arutunjanz had been executed. Bekzod Kasymbekov, born in 1975, was reportedly arrested by armed officers on 5 August 1999 at his family country house in Tashkent. It is believed that he was arrested along with his father as his younger brother, Kanditdinov Kasymbekov, who was suspected of having killed two police officers, was not at home. It is reported that his mother was watched constantly at home by six armed officers. On 8 August, she is said to have been taken to the Tashkent City Department of Internal Affairs (GUVD) where she was allegedly insulted and cursed while being asked to present the gun that had been allegedly used by her son to kill the