A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 21 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response and Mr. Wahed’s family, police officers agreed to take both men back to the hospital. It would have been impossible for them to move or stand in court due to their serious physical condition. As a result of ill-treatment Mr. Muzibur cannot move his right leg and Mr. Wahed has lost strength in the lower part of his body from his waist down. They have not received adequate medical treatment at the Paikgachha Upazila HLTH Complex. Family members hired a medical doctor at their own expense to treat the men. It is believed that military officials who arrested Mr. Muzibur and Mr. Wahed acted under the influence of police officers of the detective branch of Khulna acquainted with Mr. Muzibur’s business competitor. Mr. Muzibur and Mr. Wahed had been arrested and ill-treated by military officers and subjected to threats and intimidation by officers of the detective branch and of the Paikgachha police following an earlier arrest on 2 November 2006. Mr. Abdul Gafur and Mr. Basu Dev were arrested by military officers arriving in three pickup trucks on 17 January 2007 at around 7 p.m. at the Kopilmuni Bazar, an area under the law enforcement jurisdiction of Paikgachha Police Station in Khulna district. The soldiers were beating the men at the time of their arrests. Mr. Gafur and Mr. Dev were held incommunicado until 22 January 2007. They were admitted to a hospital in Khulna city on 19 January 2007. On 22 January 2007 the military handed both men over to officers of the Paikgachha Police Station who produced Mr. Gafur and Mr. Dev before the Paikgachha Upazila law enforcement agencies’ camp for interrogation. During the interrogation, he fell ill at 9.45 p.m. and was handed over to Paikgacha Police Station. Police immediately took him to the local health complex for treatment but the duty doctor of the health complex declared him dead. An unnatural death case was registered in Paikgacha Police Station. The body was sent to the morgue for an autopsy. The cause of death will be known once the report is received.