E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.1 page 10 gone to the Sabunçu district police station to report the incident. There, police officers are said to have incited his assailants, who had followed him, to continue the beatings. He was eventually sent with a police officer to hospital where he received treatment. A medical certificate he allegedly did not see was kept by the police officer. According to the information received, three days later he was called in to the Sabunçu district police station to identify his alleged assailants. At the station, he was allegedly assaulted by five of his assailants in front of investigators who are said not to have reacted. He reportedly sent a letter of complaint to the regional prosecutor’s office, to no avail. 32. Jafarov Intigain is said to have been convicted of robbery under article 145 of the Criminal Code and given a 10-year sentence. He was reportedly arrested on 17 March 1996 at Bakihanov, a suburb of Baku, and taken to the Sabunçu district police station where he was held for one week. During his detention, the police are believed to have tried to blame him for other crimes. At night he was allegedly taken out of his cell and tortured to confess to crimes, including murder. His hand was allegedly placed between the door and the frame; he was hanged by the handcuffs; he was beaten with wood. At some point he is said to have lost consciousness for one and half or two hours. According to the information received, he was beaten daily on the front and on the back in the lung area, it is believed, to encourage tuberculosis. The Special Rapporteur did note early symptoms of TB, which were said to have been treated. Mr. Intigain never saw a lawyer from the time he was taken into custody. He did not ask for a lawyer, because he did not think it would help and he never expected he would be given one. After seven days he was reportedly transferred to Shuvalan SIzo where he was held for three months. 33. Leyla Tairbekov was reportedly arrested on 16 February 2000. She is believed to have been taken to the Belice prosecutor’s office where she was told that she was under arrest on suspicion of counterfeiting. She was then taken to “Gorotdel”, where she was held for 11 days, after which she was transferred to Bailov SIzo She was reportedly not offered a lawyer for the first week of her detention. It is believed that her detention is connected to the fact that her husband is a communist who had recently made some statements to the press in Moscow. While she was at the police station, she was taken every day to the prosecutor’s office, where she was questioned. She was allegedly told that if she did not do what the police wanted, they were going to kill her two daughters. It is also alleged that she was threatened by an assistant prosecutor. Eventually, ceding to threats and pressure, she signed a confession. She apparently showed her lawyer signs of bruising on her arms, but prosecuting officials are said to have claimed that the marks dated from before her arrest. No medical examination is said to have been requested by her lawyer because he believed that the prosecutor’s office would not agree to give the necessary instructions for the medical examination to take place. 34. Gurbanov Bakhtiyar was reportedly arrested half naked at his home on 23 February and taken to the Guba region police department where he was allegedly kept for 10 days. He refused the lawyer who was offered to him, because he believed that he was accused of a minor crime and could do better without a lawyer. The person who filed a complaint against him is said to have withdrawn the complaint after Mr. Bakhtiyar paid the sum of money he owed the complainant. Despite that, he was forced to sign confessions to other crimes he did not commit. He was allegedly subjected to beatings, in particular with a truncheon, and insults by some investigators. He was also promised by the investigators that he would be sent to the