E/CN.4/2000/16 page 32 denial of medical treatment, to be the essential object of his complaint, namely that he has been continually subjected to punitive and vexatious measures. He offers no explanation, either, of how the anti-tuberculosis injection violates his religious beliefs. Since he complains that no sanction has been taken against the prison staff, we may assume that his suit was found to be without merit. On the contrary, he himself was found to be at fault in the incident of 3 November 1995 and was convicted of assault. 139. The Government of the United States has nevertheless undertaken an investigation into the merit of Mr. Amaker’s allegations. Mr. Amarker is currently an inmate of Green Haven prison in Stormville, New York State. He was convicted of murder committed during an armed robbery and had a prior conviction for murder with aggravating circumstances. According to information provided by the prison administration, on 3 November Mr. Amarker attacked without provocation several warders who were taking him back to his cell; some of them received injuries serious enough to warrant immediate medical treatment. 140. Mr. Amaker was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Duchess County (State of New York) to six months’ imprisonment for assault, which he is currently serving concurrently with his murder sentence. An administrative disciplinary report for misbehaviour was issued, Mr. Amaker was given a due process hearing and found guilty. He was transferred to a special housing unit where he remained for about 19 months, following which he was returned to the general prison population in November 1998. The prison records state that in October of that year he was under the care of a doctor from the New York State Department of Corrections Services and has been treated by physiotherapy specialists. Admissibility of allegations of racism and discrimination 141. Mr. Amaker provides no evidence of the “flagrant racial discrimination” which falls within the Special Rapporteur’s mandate. On the contrary, all the evidence implies that it was he who initiated the incidents of 3 November 1995 and that it is a purely criminal matter, not an issue of racism or racial discrimination. Case 1999/1: Allegations of racist violence by New York police 142. It has been reported that on 9 February 1999 civil rights activists and thousands of demonstrators called on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to investigate the shooting of a 22-year-old Guinean immigrant. Ahmed Diallo was killed last Thursday when local police fired 41 bullets at him in his apartment in the Bronx. This is the latest of several cases of apparent excessive use of force by white police officers against unarmed black and Hispanic civilians in recent years. Government reply 143. No reply has been received to date.