A/HRC/18/53 • Commander of Military Police, Mr. AbdelAziz Al Shallal • Criminal Investigations Security branch director, Mr. Raed Jazem The mission of this committee consists of investigating claims of acts of violence and torture performed on the cadaver of the child Hamza Al Khateeb. All members of the committee met in its president’s office at 8 am on Tuesday, May 5th, 2011, and decided, after deliberations, to take the following measures in order to reach the truth about this issue: 1. All committee members took a trip to the Teshreen Military Hospital, and visited its forensic department, viewed 6 colored photos on thick white photography paper, produced by the military police, judicial evidence, of the criminology photo department, and numbered 202/757, each of them carry the number 23, the photos are taken of the cadaver of a minor, Hamza Al Khateeb, it portrayed the cadaver in several different positions, and were marked with the number 23, because there was no identification of the cadaver at the moment the photos were taken. The photos were included in the file of investigation according to regulated procedures. 2. A copy of the forensic file was viewed, the file was established by three medical doctors, Dr. Akram Al Shaar, Dr. Essam Ahmad, Dr. Ismael Kiwan. The 4 pages of this report included the following, verbatim: Report of forensic expertiseconcerning the death of citzen Hamza Al Khteeb Description of appearance: • The cadaver belongs to a minor/boy in his teens, overweight, medium height, light brown skin color, black hair 4 centimeter long. • Honey colored eyes, pupils completely dilated, symmetrical. • The cadaver shows blue color in the back parts of torso and extremities. • The cadaver is soiled with blood, and shows abrasions and light superficial bruises in the right side of the front, eyelids and right cheek; it is caused by falling while dying, and has no connection to the cause of death. • It is noted that the cadaver appearance is not in concordance with the age of the dead person, it shows big proportions of torso, width and height, and increased mammal glands size, small size testicles, scrotum and penis, the penis appears to be buried in the scrotum. • It is also noted that the cadaver did not carry hair in the face, mustache, armpits and pubic areas. The cadaver shows the following injuries: 1. Perforations caused by bullet entry into the lower lateral part of the left upper arm, exit at the lower-third- part of the inner left upper arm, re-entered the chest from the side, and exited in 10 centimeters. 2. Perforations caused by bullet entry at the top right waist area, exited at the lower lateral back area. 3. Perforations caused by bullet entry and exit in the right upper arm. The cadaver does not show: There are no signs of violence or sprain, or resisting violence, no beating marks, no traces of torture, like bruises and fingernail abrasions, it does not show wounds with sharp objects, 112