Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2) • • (n) Any public official found responsible for abuse or torture in this report, including the present management of CID and GID, certain police or prison officials involved in torture or ill-treatment, Security officials referred to examples of disciplinary sanctions as evidence that there was no impunity for isolated acts of ill-treatment not amounting to torture. Examples of sanctions included loss of salary imposed on officers, or • No ex officio investigations were undertaken even in the face of serious injuries sustained by a criminal suspect Impunity was total • Information received on steps taken since December 2007/current situation as a result of violence A prosecutor appointed by the director of the PSD, who is at the same time an official of the PSD, carries out investigations into allegations of torture and illtreatment against officials and prosecutes them in a police court staffed by judges who are PSD officials appointed by the PSD director as well 2007: Following encouragements by the international community and HE King Abdullah, the police prosecutor brought charges of “beatings leading to death” against prison guards in Aqaba, who beat a detainee to death in May 2007 The Special Rapporteur has not received information on the number of suspensions, prosecutions etc that took place. A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 57 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Serious consideration should be given to video and audio taping of interrogations, including of all persons present (m) All allegations of torture and ill-treatment be promptly and thoroughly investigated by an independent authority with no connection to the authority investigating or prosecuting the case against the alleged victim