A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 100 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted the night by eight members of the Fiji Police (“strike back team”). Shortly after his arrest, members of Tevita’s family travelled to the Valelevu Police Station asking to see him. Officers at the station denied that Tevita was being held, although the van that had transported him to the station was parked outside and three officers involved in Tevita’s arrest were seen at the station. A few hours later, a phone call was received advising the family that Tevita was in CWM Hospital, Suva, where family members later observed Tevita’s bruised corpse. A Police Officers Order for Burial/cremation (form 5) reports the cause of death of Tevita as “shock and internal haemorrhage due to multiple bruises as a complication of multiple blunt impacts”. Post mortem photos appeared to indicate substantial bruising to the body of the deceased. Sakiusa Rabaka was arrested in the course of a joint military police operation on 28 January 2007. He was questioned by the military in Nadi and died three weeks later of a brain haemorrhage, for which he received emergency surgery. Then police commissioner stated that police were treating his death as murder and investigations were ongoing against suspects including one police man and six or seven soldiers. Nimilote Verebasaga was arrested by the police at the family home in Nakaulevu early in the morning of 5 January, 2007 and taken to the military barracks for questioning. He was pronounced dead on arrival at CWM Hospital. The body showed visible signs of broken ribs and a broken neck. The Government response

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