A/HRC/4/33/Add.3 page 35 45. The Government informed that the Special Rapporteur and his entourage was provided with every facility to enable them to perform their tasks to the best of their ability. As soon as the officers in charge knew that the Special Rapporteur was at the Criminal Investigation Department, he and his entourage were immediately admitted and provided with every facility, including access to the Department’s custody wing. The Special Rapporteur met with all prisoners on their own and without any interference from the security officers present. 46. Zaher Abed Al-Jalil Abu Al-Reesh, aged 30. He had been arrested in connection with a theft investigation and held in Marqa Police Station from 24 to 26 June 2006. On 26 June he had been transferred to CID detention facility; administratively detained on the authority of the Governor for five days. He had not been presented to the public prosecutor. The investigators of his case were Lieutenant Ala’a and Lieutenant Ghaleb from Marqa Police Station who came to CID to interrogate him. He was interrogated in a specially-designated cell adjacent to the cells of other detainees. He told the Special Rapporteur that the torture lasted from about 10.30 p.m. until midnight on 26 June. He was forced to strip to his underwear and his feet were bound with his trousers. The investigators forced him to sit on his feet and handcuffed him behind his back. One of the interrogators sat on his knees while the other one pulled at his arms behind his back for a period of 30 minutes. He was then suspended for almost two hours from the cell door with his feet about one metre above the ground, and subjected to falaqa, and beaten on his head, arms and legs with a belt and buckle. Throughout this period he fainted from time to time, and was revived by cold water that was thrown on him. Whenever he regained consciousness the perpetrators would jerk his feet down and continue beating him. As a result of the treatment his shoulder was dislocated. He recalled to the Special Rapporteur that there had been 17 persons in solitary confinement who were transferred or released in days just prior to his visit. 47. Around midnight, when the Special Rapporteur confronted the Deputy Director of CID, Colonel Atef Al Saudi, the Director of Criminal Investigation Section North/South/Central Jordan, Lieutenant Colonel Issa Kakish, and the Director of Criminal Investigation Section Central Amman, Lieutenant Colonel Assad Bali, with these allegations as well as the clear medical evidence, they flatly denied any knowledge of torture in their premises two nights before. Finally, the officers agreed to a joint medical examination together with Jordanian forensic experts the next day. The Special Rapporteur strongly recommended that none of the detainees should be interrogated or released in the meantime. However, when the Special Rapporteur went downstairs to the cell block again he discovered that Mr. Al-Reesh had been removed during the conversation with the officials. An inquiry revealed that Lieutenant Colonel Assad Bali had ordered his removal, allegedly on request of the Marqa police station. The Special Rapporteur made it clear that he expected Mr. Al-Reesh to be brought back to CID for the medical examination agreed on and expressed strong protest at this obvious attempt to hide evidence. 48. The next day, 29 June, Mr. Al-Reesh said that after the Special Rapporteur had left the cell block around 11.30 p.m., he was questioned by guards as to what he had said. He was then taken by three police officers to a car parked in an alley behind the police station. About 30 minutes later, the officers were instructed by phone to transfer him quickly to the Marqa police station. He was held there overnight and returned unharmed to CID in the morning before the Special Rapporteur’s return.