A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 162 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted of development and employment in Buotou. The 37 persons were then severely assaulted and forced to sit outside in the rain and sun and were denied food (only some received some food from their relatives). Their heads were shaved and mud and chilli pepper was rubbed on their heads, into wounds caused during the beating and into the women’s vaginas. They were threatened that they would be subjected to the "sassywood procedure", wherein the victim must prove his or her innocence by consuming poison without dying, and were ordered to confess to being witches. They were released on 24 October 2006 following the intervention of Liberia National Police (LNP) and United Nations Police (UNPOL). On 24 December 2006, Ms. Tuakerseh Gborgan died in Sanniquillie, apparently as a result of the injuries sustained during the trial by ordeal. Hunger and lack of adequate medical treatment may also have contributed to her death. On 24 November 2006, police arrested eight people alleged to have participated in this procedure, among them the witch doctor, Buotou Town Chief, and the Zone Chief. The eight men were charged with aggravated assault on 27 November 2006 and released on bail by the Sanniquillie magistrate’s court the same day. The Youth Leader was not arrested. On 22 June 2007, the witch doctor was indicted for murder in the Nimba county circuit court. However, on 16 July, he was acquitted after the circuit court judge granted a defence motion to dismiss the case on the ground that there was inadequate evidence to prove the Government response