E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.1 page 18 demonstrators that the rally could not take place in the centre of Baku as intended by the organizers and proposed another location, outside central Baku. The demonstrators nevertheless gathered in the centre of the city. It was reported by NGOs and the media that several demonstrators were severely beaten by the police. 66. In particular, the Special Rapporteur received information regarding Vagif Mustafa oglu Hajiev, the chairman of Arar, one of the political parties that organized the demonstration. After the demonstration, at around 5 p.m., he is said to have gathered with some friends at the Republican Palace where he met the head of the Department for Public Security of the Baku City Police Department and senior security officials. He was reportedly asked to instruct the demonstrators to disperse calmly. Immediately after the order was given, a police officer is said to have attacked a journalist who reportedly lost consciousness. It is reported that the deputy chief of Nazimi police region then instructed police officers to beat Vagif Mustafa oglu Hajiev, who was allegedly attacked by 10 officers with rubber truncheons and beaten on the back and on the head, while offering no resistance. He is said to have lost consciousness and to have been taken to a car. He reportedly recovered consciousness at the Nazimi region police station No. 22 where he vomited. Despite repeated requests, his own doctor was denied access to him. Finally, a doctor said to be close to the police came and gave him injections, but refused to make an official record of medical treatment. At around 11 p.m., an independent doctor is said to have examined him and to have asked police officers to transfer him to hospital. The police refused. The following morning, he was reportedly taken to Nazimi court where a judge is said to have asked for a medical report because of his obviously serious condition. The judge is said to have asked the deputy prosecutor to produce a medical report. Vagif Mustafa oglu Hajiev is reported to have been sent back to the Nazimi police station No. 22 where he remained for the next three hours. According to the information received, he was then taken back to the court where the judge read out a medical certificate indicating that he had suffered light bodily injuries. He reportedly tried to challenge this but was prevented from doing so by the judge. The judge is said to have sentenced him to 10 days of administrative arrest. He is said to have spent the following two days lying on a sofa without being able to stand up or to bear the light and still vomiting. During that time he was reportedly able to obtain medical treatment by his own doctor. He was then reportedly transferred to “Black City”, the centre where persons sentenced to administrative detention are said to be held. On 5 May, he was informed that a criminal case had been opened against him for having resisted and lightly injured police officers, and was given access to his lawyer for the first time since his arrest. On that day, he was reportedly transferred to Bailov SIzo where he was said to have been examined by a doctor on several occasions and to have received medical treatment. From his arrival in Bailov to the date of his meeting with the Special Rapporteur (12 May), he had reportedly not been interrogated. It is believed that the reason for his arrest may be the fact that he had publicly criticized the President. 67. Similarly, the Special Rapporteur received information on Gurban Gurbanov who was allegedly severely beaten with rubber truncheons at the time of his arrest during the 29 April demonstration. He was reportedly arrested by police officers in civilian clothes and taken to the Nizami police station No. 22. On the following day, he was taken to the Nizami court where he