E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2 page 34 had several sores on his body, haemorrhoids, an enlarged liver and a sore hole in the stomach. It is believed that he was punished and subjected to various forms of ill-treatment because of his mother’s public complaints about the treatment he had been subjected to. It is believed that, at the time of the visit of the Special Rapporteur, he had been transferred to another detention facility, possibly Zangiota colony near Tashkent. Sabir Saiibbaev was reportedly arrested at home in Namangan on 23 March 1999 by some 20 MVD officers, some of them wearing uniforms. It is alleged that he was taken to the basement of his house where he was beaten for some 30 minutes with a view to making him confess that he had a gun. It is believed that officers had come with a gun that they claimed was his. According to the information received, when he came out from the basement, he could not speak to his relatives, who were threatened not to say a word about what had just happened. His wife was then said to have been taken to the basement where she was asked to recognize arms that are believed to have been planted there by officers. Sabir Saiibbaev was reportedly taken to the Namangan City police station. His children are said to have been able to see him there some 10 days after his arrest. Thereafter, his whereabouts were not known until his wife was informed in September by relatives of co-defendants in her husband’s case that he was being tried in Tashkent. It is reported that the trial had started in camera in Tashkent at the end of August. It is not known whether a lawyer had been appointed. According to the information received, he was sentenced to death and his property was confiscated. His wife is said to have been evicted with her children from their house. She is believed to have been able to meet with her husband in Tashturma for some 15 minutes in the presence of a prison guard at the end of September. According to the information received, several appeals were lodged with the Ombudsman, the Procurator General and the Supreme Court, to no avail. The Supreme Court is said to have confirmed the death sentence on 1 October. It is reported that his death certificate was received by his family on 26 December 1999. On 28 November 2000, the Namangan City Court reportedly ruled that his family should regain half of the property that had been confiscated. It is reported that this decision was never implemented. Dmitry Chikunov, a businessman born in 1971, was reportedly arrested in his mother’s home in Tashkent on 17 April 1999 on the accusation of having killed two people on the same day. After her son’s arrest, his mother, Tamara Chikunova, was said to have been held in her apartment with four police officers. The investigators reportedly insulted Dmitry Chikunov and asked his mother how she could have given birth to “a faggot”. She was allegedly told that her son would be returned shortly, and was detained in her room by the police. Her office and apartment were searched and a microphone was said to have been installed. She was then allegedly beaten and humiliated. She is said to have asked where her son was, but was given no response. Dmitry Chikunov was reportedly transferred to the Tashkent City main police station (GUVD). On the way to the GUVD, one of the arresting investigators is said to have caught his head in the car door and kicked him several times in the abdomen. Throughout the trip, he is said to have beaten him with his fists and elbows. Upon arrival at the GUVD, Dmitry Chikunov was led into an office where there were seven or eight officials. They are said to have torn off his tie and to have pressed him up against the wall and to have severely beaten him. One is said to have hit him with an empty Coca-Cola bottle. After a couple of minutes Dmitry Chikunov is said to have started losing consciousness and a blow reportedly knocked his head against the wall. Two of the investigators, including the arresting officer and another investigator, were reportedly shouting at him that he was faking it, and that they should give