A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 149 Para 124. Country Date 05/07/07 Type AL Mandate TOR Allegations transmitted behaviour. Some of the children have been at the clinic for four or more years. Corporal punishment is regularly used. The nurses punish the children by tying them to radiators or chairs for many hours. Sometimes the children are forced to sit down on the floor with their hands bound behind their back, their feet tied together, and with their heads tucked between their knees. Another form of punishment is forcing the children to stand still for long periods with their hands tied behind their backs with short breaks during meals. As a result of ill-treatment, half of the children have bruises and marks from being bound. The drug “aminazin”, which has strong side-effects, is regularly used as means of punishment. Some children suffer from tuberculosis and receive no medication, and are not separated from the others. One 12-year-old girl had a groin hernia and suffered from severe pain, and did not receive any treatment. There is no running water in the facility. The children drink the water from the same container in which they wash. All the children sleep in one overcrowded room. They have no access to education or any means of communication with the outside world. Threats of being sent to Ivanovka hospital are apparently being used to intimidate children in other orphanages in Chuy region. Otabek Muminov, aged 34, born in Tashkent. An alleged Hisb ut Tahrir member, he fled from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan in 2001 and later to Kyrgyzstan. He was detained in Osh on 28 November 2006. On 20 March 2007, he Government response

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