A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 117 Para 84. Country Date 26/09/07 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; TOR Allegations transmitted On 23 April 2007, the first-named 62 persons staged a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, at which they burnt the Pakistani flag as well as their passports and visa papers. In the absence of valid visas and other travel documents, the 62 persons were arrested by the local police and sent to Central Jail Tihar. Subsequently, their application for bail was denied with the reasoning that without local addresses it would not be possible to secure their presence during the trial if released on bail. On 22 June 2007, 31 July 2007 and 24 August 2007, three women of the group gave birth in detention, and; another detained women is pregnant. Several other detainees suffer from severe depression and their constant screaming and weeping frightens the children who are detained in the same ward. Requests to the jail authorities to provide separate accommodation for the female detainees with children was denied by the additional chief metropolitan magistrate of New Delhi on 28 May 2007. The 65 above-mentioned persons are at risk of imminent forcible return to Pakistan. M. M. B., aged 17, detained at Narkeldanga Police Station, Kolkata. He was arrested on 11 September 2007 at Sambhu Babu’s factory by policemen from Narkeldanga Police Station, where he was subsequently taken. There he was severely beaten in front of several witnesses. Shortly after, he was transferred to another room and beaten again, this time for a prolonged period. When M.M.B. returned to his cell on the Government response