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Para
72.
Country
Fiji
Date
29/01/07
Type
JUA
Mandate
Allegations transmitted
Government response
and mental integrity of all detainees has been fully
respected. With regard to the women detainees,
there were 11 women with 14 children. All of them
have been released and eight of the women with
seven children are released but they are still in
Ethiopia only because their countries of origin
have yet to finalize their travel documents and
arrangements. The remaining eight detained
suspected international terrorists will continue to
have access to embassy or consular officials of
their respective countries and that their due
process rights are being fully respected and they
have not been in any manner ill-treated.
FRDX;
HRD; TOR;
VAW
removal at any stage. Mr. Bashir Ahmed Makhtal,
Mr. Tesfaldet Kidane Tesfasgi and Mr. Saleh Idris
Salim are held at the facilities of the Central
Investigation Bureau in Addis Ababa (also known
as Maikelawi). Others are most likely held at the
military bases of Debre Zeit, southeast of Addis
Ababa, and Jijiga, about 60 km from the border
with Somalia. They are all held incommunicado
and are not known to have been given any
opportunity to challenge the legality of their
detention before a court. They are detained on
suspicion of having links with the Council of
Somali Islamic Courts or with Al-Qa'ida, although
no such charges are reported to have been
formally filed against them.
Ms. Laisa Digitaki, a businesswoman. She is
associated with the pro-democracy movement in
Fiji. On 24 December 2006, at approximately
11.20 p.m., a group of soldiers came to her home
and requested that she accompany them to a
military camp for questioning. On arrival at the
camp, Ms. Digitaki was escorted through a
passageway lined with cells, one of which
contained her business partner Mr. Imraz Iqbal.
Ms. Digitaki was subsequently detained in a dark
cell. After a period of 20 minutes she was taken
from the cell and asked to accompany a number
of soldiers to Mr. Pita Waqavonovono’s house, a
friend and fellow pro-democracy supporter. Ms.
Digitaki complied with the request. On her return
to the camp, she was led to a dark hall where Ms
Virisila Baudromo (subject of a previously
transmitted communication dated 25 January
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