A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 16 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government Response him, nor any attempts to obtain testimonies against anyone, and he had not been subject to any physical or physiological threat during the previous interrogation and in this regard he did not complain to any foreign organization. Furthermore, a special investigation was launched and Sarvan Sarhanov underwent a forensic medical examination and, as a result, the information in the media was not confirmed. The primary investigation of the crime is underway. 8. Bahamas 13/10/06 UA TOR Alutus Newbold, aged 34. On 6 October 2006, Alutus Newbold was sentenced to eight lashes with a "cat-of-nine tails" (a device consisting of nine knotted cords or thongs of raw hide attached to a handle) and 24 years' imprisonment. He was found guilty of burglary, attempted rape and causing harm, after an attack on an 87-year-old woman in her home in 2004.The court ordered that he receive four lashes at the start of his sentence and four upon his release. The punishment is suspended for three weeks pending a possible appeal. Corporal punishment had been abolished in 1984 in the Bahamas, but was reinstated in 1991 for specific offences.