charges to lawyers defending the activists, that some of the human rights defenders had been ill-treated and possibly tortured while in detention, and specifically that Naji Ali Fateel and Hassan Abdulnabi Hassan had been subjected to beatings when they protested that their cellmate Mohammed Abdullah al Sengais had been beaten with an iron rod and sexually assaulted. The Government replied that it was the general policy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to respect human rights, a forensic medical examiner had confirmed that none of the detainees had been tortured and that "all the measures taken with respect to them were in accordance with the law." The Department of Public Prosecutions had received no complaints concerning the individuals named, who had said nothing about being attacked when questioned by the Department and had decided during questioning to forfeit their right to have a lawyer present. It claimed that they had been arrested and detained in connection with criminal inquiries pursuant to specific articles of Bahrain’s criminal law, relating to "a violent gathering on 20 December 2007, during which participants assaulted police officers, set fire to a police vehicle, and stole a weapon belonging to police officers." The individuals were suspected of offences that could not "be linked to, or justified by reference to, activities as human rights defenders" but had been "accorded all their rights of visitation and legal representation" and even though no allegations of assault or mistreatment had been made the Public Prosecution had ordered medical examinations which "confirmed that none of the detainees had sustained any injuries. Allegations of torture or mistreatment of the detainees Sengais, Fateel, Hassan, and/or Al-Sheikh had been found "to be completely without foundation" and medical examinations had been unable to find no evidence of any mistreatment or abuse. In February 2011, the Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, contained the Bahrain government's belated response to a communication about the group of detainees including Naji Ali Fateel sent to it in July 2008, reaffirming that they had not been tried or convicted because of their human rights work, but because they had participated in an illegal gathering at which they had "been carrying iron bars and Molotov cocktails, set fire to a police vehicle and stole a firearm from the vehicle". It restated that no complaint