grateful for your observations on the following matters: 1. Please provide any additional information and/or comment(s) you may have on the above-mentioned allegations. 2. Please provide information on the factual and legal grounds for the arrest and detention of Dr. Amasha and how these measures are compatible with international norms and standards as stated. 3. Please provide detailed information on the state of health of Dr. Amasha and on the measures taken to ensure that he has access to medical care and treatment as needed. 4. Please also explain what measures have been taken to ensure that the rights of Dr. Amasha to due process and to a fair trial have been upheld. Please explain how these measures are consistent with Egypt’s obligations under international human rights law; 5. Please provide the details, and where available the results, of any investigation, medical examinations, and judicial or other inquiries which may have been carried out in relation to this case, in particular in connection with the allegations of ill-treatment and torture, and in accordance with the Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Protocol). If no inquiries have taken place, or if they have been inconclusive, please explain why. 6. Please explain how Dr Amasha treatment and conditions of detention are compliant with the international norms and standards, notably the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules). In particular, how is the Government upholding its responsibility to provide adequate medical care and abide by 15 days maximum period of solitary confinement. 7. Please provide information on the inquiries conducted on two instances of enforced disappearance to which Dr. Amasha was subjected, including to identify those responsible and to hold them accountable. If no inquiries have taken place, or if they have been inconclusive, please explain why. 8. In the event that the alleged perpetrators are identified, please provide the full details of any prosecution which have been undertaken. Have penal, disciplinary or administrative sanctions been imposed on the alleged perpetrators? 9. Please provide information on the measures undertaken by your Government to guarantee the right to form and participate freely in organizations and associations concerned with attempting to establish the circumstances of enforced disappearances and the fate of disappeared persons, and to assist victims of enforced disappearance. 4