A/HRC/4/21/Add.1 page 62 beaten with wooden rods and hoses on her buttocks, arms, legs, hands, stomach and back. She was forced to confess to being unfaithful and then taken to her husband’s home and made her dance before her neighbours while they verbally insulted her. Several of the law enforcement officials kicked her. 261. On 21 March 2006, she suffered a miscarriage. The local authorities initially failed to investigate the events, despite the fact that these had been recorded on mobile phone videos, and widely circulated in the region. On 29 August 2006, the Chechen Premier, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, reportedly stated that he had ordered the Chechen Interior Ministry to investigate the events. Response from the Government dated 28 December 2006 262. The Government informed that on 18 March 2006, when Malika Soltayeva underwent a medical examination at the central district hospital in Shali, scars on her face, hands and back and a concussion were detected. On the same day, the police received reports that she had been abducted. Consequently, the Prosecutor of Argun investigated the case. During the course of this investigation Ms. Soltayeva explained that she had not been abducted, that she had not been subjected to any physical or moral pressure and that she had sustained the injuries as a result of domestic violence. She never complained about her injuries to the police. Therefore, on 7 May 2006 the Prosecutor of Argun refused to open a criminal case for reason of the “absence of a crime” (art. 24, para 1 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code). However, given the numerous contradictions in testimonies of the persons involved and of eye-witnesses and allegations of wrong-doing by police officers, the case has been referred to the Republican Prosecutor, following which, on 16 October 2006, on the basis of the statement of Ms Soltayeva a criminal case was opened with reference to art. 117, para. e (2) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (harassment by a group of persons). Observations 263. The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the response from the Government and she would appreciate receiving further information on recent developments in that case. Communication sent on 15 September 2006 jointly with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture 264. The Special Rapporteurs sent this communication to raise their concern on Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, two former detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov were the subject of an urgent appeal sent to your Government by the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on 27 May 2004. According to the allegations received, in February 2004, Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, along with five other Russian citizens, were returned from Guantánamo Bay to Russia. In April 2005, they were arrested in connection with a pipeline explosion in Tatarstan in January 2005. In detention, interrogators pulled hairs from Ravil Gumarov’s beard and forced vodka down his throat, which is a particularly offensive form of ill-treatment for abstinent Muslims, in an effort to force him to confess. Interrogators warned Timur Ishmuratov that they would call in his pregnant wife for questioning and could not guarantee the safety of the foetus. Both men confessed to the crime during the investigation, but subsequently withdrew their confessions in court.