A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 146 Para Country Date Type Mandate 120. Kuwait 16/02/07 AL TOR 121. Kyrgyzstan 02/05/07 JAL HRD; TOR; Allegations transmitted Commission official and a lawyer his family had hired for him. On 21 January 2007, the four men were transferred to the Ethiopian armed forces in Mogadishu without any legal basis and without having been given the opportunity to appeal the transfer. Zhiya Khassem Khammam al-Hussain, a 40year-old Iraqi citizen, resident in Al-Farounania Kuwait, currently in detention in Saudi Arabia. On 15 January 2007, Mr. Al-Hussain was arrested at his home by approximately 20 state security service agents (Amn Addaoula), his home was searched, and he was taken to the state security headquarters under the Ministry of Interior. At the detention facility, he remained for one week and was repeatedly beaten by sticks on the soles of his feet and on other parts of the body, hung from the ceiling by his wrists and threatened with expulsion to Iraq, although he does not have any family or other links there. As a result, his body bears numerous traces of the treatment, such as swelling in his face, bruises and traces of lashing. He was then transferred to an administrative detention centre where foreigners are held before they are expelled from Kuwait. On 31 January 2007, without any judicial procedure, he was deported to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he is currently detained in a detention centre of the Ministry of Interior. Bektemir Akunov, a member of the movement “For the Worthy Future of Kyrgyzstan”, based in Naryn. On 13 April 2007, at approximately 7.30 p.m., Mr. Akunov was arrested by police, without Government response

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