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Para
Country
Date
Type
Mandate
10.
Armenia
30/05/07
JAL
SUMX;
TOR
11.
Bahrain
14/03/07
JUA
WGAD;
TOR
Allegations transmitted
they suffered. Most of them have not received any
health care upon their arrival to the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Furthermore, the migrants
have been kept in incommunicado detention in
harsh conditions before their deportations,
subjected to beatings and other forms of illtreatment, and denied food and water provisions
both during their detention and deportation to the
Congolese border. There are also reports of
deaths due to exhaustion or maltreatment.
Levon Gulyan, a 30-year-old Armenian citizen.
He was called to a police station in Yerevan
several times between 10 and 12 May to testify as
a witness in connection with a murder. On 12 May
2007, he was transferred to the police
headquarters in Yerevan around 1 p.m. Four
hours later he was found dead. When announcing
that Mr. Gulyan had died, the police claimed that
Mr. Gulyan had died either while trying to escape
from the room where he was held by jumping from
the third storey window, or that he had decided to
commit suicide. However, marks of ill-treatment
and bruises that are unlikely to stem from jumping
or falling out of a window were discovered on his
body.
Jaffar Ahmad, a 35-year-old mechanic. On 1
March 2007 at around 8.45 p.m., he was stopped
on the street close to his residence by a group of
plain-clothed security officers wearing black
masks. The men beat him using sticks and kicked
and punched him in various parts of his body. He
was taken by a car to a police station in the
central region, where he is currently being
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