A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 143 Para 118. Country Kazakhstan Date 19/10/07 Type AL Mandate TOR Allegations transmitted beards were forcibly shaved and subjected to other restrictions, e.g. they were not allowed to leave their cells 24 hours per day. Starting in September, the situation improved slightly in terms of access to food, to family members, and exercise. The prison director was removed. However, no investigations into the allegations of the deaths in custody or torture were initiated and none of the perpetrators were brought to justice. Bolgonbaev Salavat Zhomartovitch, aged 28, formerly resident in Almaty, and presently detained at a correctional facility in Almaty oblast. Mr. Bolgonbaev was detained on 31 August 2006 in the afternoon at the intersection of Auezov and Abay streets in Almaty. He was apprehended, put in a police car and driven around the city for about an hour before being taken to the city department of internal affairs. During that ride, two police officers beat him inside the car while he remained handcuffed. Between 1 and 8 September 2006, while he was in the investigators’ offices, he was beaten with hands and different objects on various parts of his body, needles were pushed under his nails, plastic bags were put over his head and he was threatened with rape in order to extract a confession for the murder of a foreign journalist. On 10 September 2006, Mr. Bolgonbaev was transferred to the Ministry of Justice pre-trial detention center in Almaty, where he remained until the appeal court rendered its decision in September 2007. In mid-December 2006, Mr. Bolgonbaev was taken from the pre-trial detention facility to the city department of internal affairs for Government response