A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
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Para
Country
Date
Type
Mandate
81.
25/08/06
JUA
WGAD;
Indigenous
People;
TOR;
82.
13/09/06
AL
TOR;
Allegations transmitted
the cell jump up and down for about 20 minutes.
On 6 March 2006, he was informed that he was
being charged in connection with a fight that had
occurred in the area. On the same day, he was
produced before a court and remanded in custody
for 14 days. However, he was released on bail the
next day.
Leitanthem Umakanta Meitei, Secretary General
of the Threatened Indigenous Peoples Society,
Manipur and Spokesperson for the Apunba Lup, a
coalition of 34 human rights organizations in
Manipur, India. At 4am on 24 August 2006,
Leitanthem Umakanta Meitei (subject of earlier
communciations in E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.1, Para.
785 and E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.1, Para. 786) was
arrested at his home and taken to Manipur West
Police Station, where he was beaten, causing him
to pass out several times during interrogation. He
was also threatened with further acts of torture or
ill-treatment.
Darshan Singh, aged 34, a farmer from Amritsar,
in Punjab State. At 5:10pm on 27 August 2006,
he was arrested together with Harbhajan Singh
during a police raid on a house near Majitha Road
in Amritsar, which was carried out by the police
from the C Division of the Criminal Intelligence
Bureau. The two men were taken to a police
compound run by the C Division in Mal Mandi. On
arrival, the officers beat and kicked Darshan
Singh and also applied rollers to his knees. They
spread his legs as far as they would go until he
lost consciousness. They then poured water on
his face to bring him round and then continued to
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