E/CN.4/2000/9 page 76 1998 and notification was filed with the Public Prosecutor, the Minister of the Interior and the Badrasheen Prosecution Office. On 18 October the Badrasheen Prosecution Office is reported to have begun an investigation of the allegations and ordered that the complainants be examined at the Badrashein Hospital. 370. Zenhum Mohamed Badr was reportedly arrested on 29 July 1998 on charges of killing a girl in the village of Ghazal. He was reportedly questioned by a major at the electricity police station about the disappearance of a girl from the village on 22 July 1998. When he denied knowledge of her whereabouts, detectives, acting under orders of a major, allegedly removed his shirt, tied his hands behind his back and then tied him to a door for an hour with his legs were reportedly bound with his belt. He was then reportedly taken to the major, where he was suspended from the door for four hours before being subjected to electric shocks on his penis. He reportedly confessed to the crime, and when the body of the girl was not found, he was allegedly subjected to further beatings with electric cable and suspended. As a result of the torture, it is reported that he confessed a second time and took the police to a field where he stated he had buried the girl. When the body was not found, he was returned to the station and again beaten. On 2 August he was reportedly taken to the Public Prosecutor and made another confession, and then to the Al-Abadya prison in Damanhour. On 18 August the girl reportedly re-appeared. The major allegedly threatened to put him on military trial if he reported the torture and, therefore, he initially informed the prosecution that he had confessed because of low morale. He subsequently filed a complaint with the Keleen prosecution. His brother, Ibrahim Mohamed Badr was allegedly detained and taken to the telephone office in the village along with his mother and wife. They were also questioned about the disappearance of the girl and then taken to the Keleen police station where he was allegedly kicked and punched in front of his mother and wife to extract a confession of participating in the murder. He was then allegedly tied and beaten while suspended from a door. He, his mother and wife were then reportedly transferred to Damanhour police station. Another brother, Fouda Mohamed Badr was allegedly arrested when he went to visit his brother at the police station. It is reported that his hands were tied behind his back and he was suspended from the door of the room. He was then allegedly tied to a falaka and his feet were beaten. Later he was allegedly suspended for several hours by a wire from a tree in the station yard. He was then transferred to the Damanhour police station, where he was allegedly subjected to electric shocks. During the ill-treatment, police allegedly asked him to confess to murder. 371. Shaaban Mohamed Abdel-Gawad allegedly died as a result of torture inflicted by police at the Kalyoub police station on 13 December 1998. The police reportedly arrested 21 people who were considered suspects in the murder of a 60-year-old woman in the village of Ramada. All were allegedly detained for four days and subjected to ill-treatment or torture to force them to confess or give information about the killer. Shaab Mohamed Abdel-Gawad was allegedly subjected to electric shocks, beaten and kicked. As a result of the torture, he reportedly confessed to the murder of the woman and theft of her gold but despite the confession, police reportedly continued to beat him with water hoses and give him electric shocks. Police officers allegedly attempted to bury the body of the victim without informing his family or the people of his village, but villagers reportedly intervened. Mohamed Sayid Mahmoud Eweida, who was amongst the 21 persons detained as suspects in the same murder case was allegedly subjected to torture by the police in Kalyouba police station. An electric wire was allegedly connected to his toe and another to his mouth, penis