A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 14 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government Response bad and nutrition insufficient. They are allowed 5 to 10 minutes of exercise per day and do not have access to education. At times, they are being taken to the Ranaman District police administration building in Baku, where they are held in isolation for up to 10 days, get only one meal per day and are not allowed to exercise at all. They have been held in pre-trial detention for more than a year, pending the investigation that has now been on-going for more than 13 months. Officials have refused to investigate the allegations of torture. inspector, said nothing about any violence, torture or threat used against him on his way to the cell. At the same time they did not observe any injuries on R. B.'s body. Defendant R. B. explained that he had met with the inspector on 23 June 2005 in investigative isolation unit no. 3 and the inspector asked him to give objective testimonies during court hearings. After turning down this request, the inspector grasped R. B.'s right wrist, but committed neither torture nor violence against him. Thus the allegations of torture and violence committed against defendant R. B. were not confirmed. During the investigation of the criminal case of R. B., M. G. and D. P., they all underwent medical examinations, and according to the forensic medical examination, no injuries were discovered on their bodies. It is impossible to draw any conclusions about whether the "yellowish spot" indicated in R. B.'s medical card is an injury or not, as no registration of its pre-existing morphologic signs had been conducted. The allegations of violence against R. B. committed by inspectors carrying out the investigation and by the police officers of Surakhan District police department n. 33 on 14 March 2005, were not confirmed and neither R. B. nor the other defendants and their lawyers filed any complaints on that issue with the investigative agencies. Currently, the Prosecutor's Office is closely following the trial. Respecting its international obligations, the State will ensure full, comphrehensive and

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