A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 98 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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