A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 109 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response deprivation of liberty (section 239 of the Criminal Code). The same criminal procedure instruments are available to it for this purpose as to the Federal Public Prosecutor General. The Stuttgart Public Prosecution Office has therefore undertaken a further examination of the allegations. With its order of 11 January 2007, it then also refrained from initiating investigation proceedings on suspicion of unlawful deprivation of liberty or other criminal offences (not within the remit of the Federal Public Prosecutor General), in accordance with section 152 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to this order, there was no suspicion of criminal conduct by German citizens, in particular by German liaison officers working at the U.S.-EUCOM headquarters, which would have required the initiation of investigation proceedings. In this respect, it stated that there is merely information that liaison persons of the German armed forces work at U.S.-EUCOM headquarters in Stuttgart-Vaihingen and were also working there at the time of the action in question. However, there was no information linking these persons to participation in the transfer of the six Algerians to Guantanamo. The Public Prosecution Office also stated that it was not known which persons were involved in arranging the handover, in whatever manner, on the U.S. side, and it also was not known who was responsible for the action (particularly at the U.S.-EUCOM headquarters in Stuttgart). Furthermore - according to the order members of the U.S. forces are not subject to German jurisdiction. Article VII 3 (a) (u) of the