CAT/C/57/D/558/2013 been doing for years. He feared that he would be forced to spy on different resistance groups, forced to commit terrorist acts and eventually killed. 7.3 The second complainant submitted that she had converted to Islam after marrying and that in Belarus there was hostility against the various Muslim communities living there. She feared that she would face racism if she was deported, that she would be left alone in Belarus with her five children and that she might be accused of treason for helping her husband escape from the authorities in 2005. She feared that would go to jail while her husband would be deported to the Russian Federation. She submitted that in Belarus, persons who had been in jail could not reintegrate in society after their release. She would not be able to get a job or lead a normal life, like other citizens. She would not have any support, since her own mother had never accepted her marriage and in the past had called the police several times accusing the first complainant of espionage. 7.4 With regard to the situation of the complainant’s children, four of whom were born in Switzerland, none of them are familiar with the situation in Belarus or Chechen society. They are well integrated in the Swiss education system. In Belarus, they would face racism because of their Chechen last name. They would be separated from their parents and sent to an orphanage. In addition, the complainants’ eldest child has psychological problems and has to continue his treatment in Switzerland.6 7.5 The first complainant clarified that in 1999, he had been arrested two weeks after the death of his brother and that he had indicated that fact in both interviews with the migration authorities. He contested the State party’s submission that he had not provided details about the detention conditions in Chechnya and maintained that he had answered questions in that regard during the interview in March 2006. He submitted that he could not forget the conditions in the school dormitory building where he was detained in 1999. The police had shown him several other prisoners, some of whom had had their feet placed in water and then been electrocuted, others had been subjected to electric shocks to different parts of their bodies, including their “private parts”, and others had had their nails removed. 7.6 The first complainant submitted that the State party had refused to consider that his state of health had deteriorated over the previous nine years as a result of the torture to which he had been subjected in the Russian Federation and Belarus. He failed to understand why the State party had rejected his medical certificates and presented medical certificates for the Committee’s consideration.7 The complainants reiterated that they had attempted to present as many documents as possible to support their claims and that they had submitted to the authorities medical certificates from Belarus and Switzerland, testimonials from individuals from Brest who had witnessed the persecution to which the first complainant had been subjected, the summonses from the police, and a letter from the first complainant’s mother. 7.7 With regard to the State party’s contention that the summonses from the Belarusian police convoked the first complainant to appear as a witness only, the first complainant submitted that, as he had not been in Brest for nine years and could not have witnessed anything, he had presumed that the purpose of the summonses was to detain him, torture him and send him to Chechnya where he was wanted. He maintained that if he had been 6 7 The complainants presented a letter from the Medical-Educational Office of the Department of Education of the canton of Geneva attesting to the fragile state of the complainant’s son and a letter from a speech therapist attesting that the boy needs further treatment. The complainant presented certificates from the Geneva University Hospitals, one dated 8 May 2013 diagnosing him with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, and one dated 26 August 2013 certifying that he was receiving treatment for orthopaedic problems. 7