A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 142 Para 117. Country Date 23/10/07 Type JAL Mandate RINT; SUMX; TOR Allegations transmitted Government response terrorist”. He was then held incommunicado for more than a year, at which point the General Intelligence Directorate finally allowed his family to visit him. Mr. Al-Uteibi was repeatedly ill-treated while in detention. Notably he was severely beaten in his cell on 25 April 2007 because he asked to see a judge or be released. He went on a hunger strike on 15 May 2007 to protest his detention without a judicial decision and his lack of access to a lawyer. Mr. Al-Uteibi had been arrested already on 28 November 2002 together with 11 other persons and accused of “plotting to commit terrorist acts”. He was acquitted by the State Security Court on 27 December 2004. However, after the acquittal he was transferred to a secret detention centre, where he was held without new charges until 28 June 2005. He was repeatedly ill-treated while in secret detention. `Ala’ Abu `Utair and approximately 2100 prisoners held at Siwaqa Correction and Rehabilitation Centre. In July and August 2007, they were subjected to repeated beatings with truncheons, electrical cables and steel balls attached to steel chains by about 300 officers of a “special police force”. The officers entered the cells, dragged out the prisoners and beat them in the adjacent courtyard. The prisoners did not receive any medical care following these beatings, although some were severely injured. Several prisoners were unable to walk because of injuries to their legs. Two prisoners, one of them `Ala’ Abu `Utair, died as a result of the ill-treatment. During the same period, the Muslim prisoners who had hatred and intolerance. He was arrested after an arrest warrant that had been issued by the public prosecutor on charges of conspiring with the objective to commit terrorist acts. At the time of arrest, he was promptly informed of the charges against him and had been shown the arrest warrant as required by Article 9(2) of ICCPR. Mr. Al Baraqaoui was not deprived of the right of the visit by his family members or any national or international human rights organization. Indeed, he has been granted the right to be visited like any other inmate in the correctional and rehabilitation centre. Representatives of the ICRC and the National Centre for Human Rights have been visiting him regularly. As for the legality of his arrest, it was according to the applicable laws and regulations, and he has a lawyer who is acting on his behalf and communicating with him.