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Para
Country
Date
Type
Mandate
120.
Kuwait
16/02/07
AL
TOR
121.
Kyrgyzstan
02/05/07
JAL
HRD; TOR;
Allegations transmitted
Commission official and a lawyer his family had
hired for him. On 21 January 2007, the four men
were transferred to the Ethiopian armed forces in
Mogadishu without any legal basis and without
having been given the opportunity to appeal the
transfer.
Zhiya Khassem Khammam al-Hussain, a 40year-old Iraqi citizen, resident in Al-Farounania
Kuwait, currently in detention in Saudi Arabia. On
15 January 2007, Mr. Al-Hussain was arrested at
his home by approximately 20 state security
service agents (Amn Addaoula), his home was
searched, and he was taken to the state security
headquarters under the Ministry of Interior. At the
detention facility, he remained for one week and
was repeatedly beaten by sticks on the soles of
his feet and on other parts of the body, hung from
the ceiling by his wrists and threatened with
expulsion to Iraq, although he does not have any
family or other links there. As a result, his body
bears numerous traces of the treatment, such as
swelling in his face, bruises and traces of lashing.
He was then transferred to an administrative
detention centre where foreigners are held before
they are expelled from Kuwait. On 31 January
2007, without any judicial procedure, he was
deported to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he is
currently detained in a detention centre of the
Ministry of Interior.
Bektemir Akunov, a member of the movement
“For the Worthy Future of Kyrgyzstan”, based in
Naryn. On 13 April 2007, at approximately 7.30
p.m., Mr. Akunov was arrested by police, without
Government response
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