A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 85 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted on 29 April 2005 in Al-Manoufiya in connection with bombings in Cairo on 7 April 2005. He was held incommunicado for 13 days. His relatives learned about his whereabouts only when on 11 May 2005 he was transferred to Al-Minyal University Hospital with serious injuries. He died eight days later, on 19 May 2005. On 21 May 2005, the competent public prosecutor stated that, according to initial police reports, Mr. Ashraf Sa‘id Youssef had caused his own injuries by repeatedly banging his head against the wall of his cell. The Government has acknowledged, however, that he was also bruised on his chest and arms. The public prosecutor announced that he had ordered the deceased’s body to be made available for a forensic examination to establish the cause of death. Two years later, the results of this examination, as well as of any other inquiry into the circumstances of his death, remain unknown. Mr. Muhammad Ahmed was arrested on 29 April 2005 in connection with the bombings. He died in custody on the same day. An official of the Ministry of Interior is reported to have stated, without further details, that Mr. Muhammad Ahmed had health problems that may have caused or contributed to his death. Relatives of the deceased are reported to have told the media that although they suspected that Muhammad Ahmed had died as a result of torture, they had been coerced by the authorities into signing a medical report that attributed the death to natural causes, and burying the body the same day in the presence of police officers. Government response