A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 144 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted additional investigation. In the office of the investigator he was heavily beaten by an investigator to punish him for having revoked his previous confession during the trial. In May 2007, Mr. Bolgonbaev was found guilty on charges of robbery and unpremeditated murder and sentenced to 13 years in prison. His appeal for reversing the lower court decision was denied by the Supreme Court on 4 September 2007. According to a medical examinations carried out by different doctors between 1 and 8 September 2006, and 15 December 2006, injuries documented included bruising on his arms, collarbone, shoulder, back, forehead and face, chest, legs and stomach. Around 10 September 2006, during a first meeting with the prosecutor, Mr. Bolgonbaev alleged that he had been illtreated. The Almaty internal affairs department (the same department to which the alleged perpetrators belonged to) carried out an internal investigation and concluded that the allegations were unfounded. However, the investigation merely consisted of Mr. Bolgonbaev being asked to identify his torturers in a face-to-face meeting. During this “investigation” Mr. Bolgonbaev, for fear of further torture, withdrew his allegations. In September 2006, Mr. Bolgonbaev submitted complaints to the Prosecutor General of, to the Presidential Commission on Human Rights, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. No replies were received. Despite of the forensic evidence and several witnesses who stated that they had seen Mr. Bolgonbaev return to his prison cell thorougly Government response