A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 28 Para 21. Country Date 07/11/07 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; FRDX; HRD; IJL; TOR Allegations transmitted 18 June 2007 by army personnel from Moulovibazar, Kulaura Thana. The army stated that 15 army personnel led by a captain arrested him at the western Bazar area of Moulovibazar town. Army personnel searched his house and forced his wife to sign a blank sheet of paper. His brother, Mr. Mubir Miah, was visited by a police constable from Kalaura Police Station, forced him to sign a blank piece of paper and then informed him that his brother had died from a heart attack and his body was at the hospital. In response to a request by local human rights groups for the inquest report, the officer in charge of Kulaura Police Station replied that army officials had instructed him that the report could not be released. An unnatural death case was filed at the police station. A cleric who bathed the body reported that it was badly bruised and appeared to have been beaten. Jahangir Alam Akash, a journalist with CSB News Bangladesh, and a human rights defender, Rajshahi (subject of a previously transmitted communication of 22 May 2007). On the night of 23 October 2007, at around 1.30 a.m., 10 to12 Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) agents in plain clothes went to arrest him and search his house for hidden weapons. The RAB agents grabbed Mr. Alam Akash, began slapping him hard in the face, handcuffed him, wrapped a black cloth around his head and took him away. He was taken to a nearby army camp where he was severely beaten. He suffered severe physical injuries and was taken to Rajshahi Hospital. He is unable to Government response