A/HRC/22/66 B. Violations related to the response of FRCI to assailants 29. The FRCI reacted vigorously to attacks by assailants by strengthening its presence in Abidjan and other towns, particularly in sensitive regions such as the west of the country and the borders with Liberia and Ghana. FRCI troops set up roadblocks and conducted searches and raids in villages. 30. The Expert deplores the cases of violations of the right to life that were reported to him, the victims of which were often members of the State security system and civilians suspected of colluding with assailants. For example, on the night of 19 August 2012, the FRCI conducted a raid on the village of Dougroulilié, killing a man of 42 years of age suspected of hiding assailants and arresting another person of 35 years of age for the same reason. In response, the village chief led a four-person delegation to the FRCI camp in order to demand the release of the person who had been arrested. Once inside the military camp, the entire delegation was arrested and detained. 31. Other security incidents, most often attributed largely to the FRCI and which have given rise to violations of the right to life among the civilian population, have been documented throughout the country; at least 38 people have been killed during armed robberies and hold-ups that sometimes involve highway robbers. 32. Following the destabilization operations conducted by assailants since August, a large number of civilians as well as military personnel have been arrested and detained for their alleged participation in these attacks. In August alone, more than 382 people were arrested for jeopardizing State security, some of whom were subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and 2 of whom died as a result of acts of torture. Serious cases of torture using electricity have been reported, in particular at San Pedro where the Expert received increasingly recurrent allegations of torture committed within the Groupement tactique du Sud-Ouest (South West Battle Group) (GTSO). 33. With regard to detention, on 30 October 2012 more than 250 people remained in arbitrary detention, more than 132 had been released and 131 had been placed in preventive detention in various detention centres around the country. Others, detained incommunicado or beyond the statutory custody limits, had not been brought before a judge. It should be noted that the majority of those who were arrested are, or were, held not only in regular detention centres but also in centres inappropriate for civilians, such as various other FRCI camps. The Expert further notes that the statutory custody limits are not always respected and that detainees are often held in illegal detention centres, such as [on the premises of] the Anti-Riot Squad, the Armed Forces Headquarters, the Republican Guard, the Adjamé Military Police Engineering Camp for civilians or [at] private houses occupied by the FRCI. 34. FPI officials and activists felt that they were the subject of particular attention following the attacks by assailants. On 6 August 2012, Mady Bouabré, a former Member of Parliament affiliated to the FPI, was arrested in Noé, near the border with Ghana and detained at the National Surveillance Directorate. On 12 August 2012, Alphonse Douaty, Deputy Secretary-General of the FPI, was arrested in Abidjan and transferred to the National Surveillance Directorate. On 26 August 2012, the Secretary-General of the FPI, Laurent Akoum, was questioned by police on his way to an FPI meeting in Adzopé, 100 kilometres from Abidjan. After staying at Agban camp, he was transferred to Abidjan Detention and Correction Centre (MACA) where the Expert was able to meet with him. Mr. Akoum is charged with disturbing public order for having asserted at a meeting that former President Gbagbo had been ill-treated while in detention in Korhogo and, in addition, for having contested the results of the presidential elections. GE.13-10074 9