E/CN.4/2000/9 page 125 time. The other three were allegedly repeatedly beaten, tortured with electric shocks and kept in the shabeh position. It is reported that they are still detained. 638. 'Abd al-Hasan Hasan 'Abd al Hasan Surur, 'Abbas Hasan 'Abd al-Husayn Surur, Ahmad Hasan 'Abd al-Husayn Surur, Yusef Ya'qub Surur and Husayn Fahd Daqduq were reportedly arrested in 'Ita al-Sha'b by SLA forces in March and April 1987. They were reportedly taken to Centre 17 Camp and then to Khiam Detention Centre, where they were allegedly tortured by methods including electric shocks to the fingers or genitals. It is reported that they were interrogated by Israelis. They were then reportedly transferred to Safarand in Israel where they were allegedly interrogated by Israeli security service personnel and severely beaten and forced into the shabeh position. They were eventually transferred to Kishom Prison and tried before the Military Court at Lod where they were reportedly sentenced to up to three years' imprisonment for offences such as membership and military training with an illegal organization. Husayn Fahd Daqduq should have been released in 1988 and the others in 1990. It is reported that they are still detained. Urgent appeals and replies received 639. On 13 January 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal in conjunction with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Taysar Muhmed Aouwda, who was reportedly arrested on 30 December 1998 and had since been detained at the GSS Interrogation Unit of the Jerusalem Russian Compound. He was reportedly suffering from a chronic illness and had been denied medication he had brought with him to the Russian Compound. On 4 January 1999, an ad hoc military proceeding was reportedly held and the court is said to have extended his detention for 15 days. The court is also said to have ordered that he be examined by a prison physician. 640. On 2 February 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal in conjunction with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on behalf of Ali Mustafa Tawbeh, who had reportedly been arrested from his primary school in Arnoun by Israeli armed forces on 6 October 1997 and taken to the Khiam Detention Centre, in southern Lebanon. Israeli armed forces in the south of Lebanon have reportedly claimed that he was arrested for "planning a military operation against them". During the first six months of his incommunicado detention, he was allegedly subjected to torture and was kept in solitary confinement. 641. The Government replied on 13 July 1999 that Ali Mustafa Tawbeh was arrested by forces of the South Lebanese Army (SLA) and not by Israeli forces, in his home and not in his school. The Government stated that he was arrested on suspicion of having been actively involved in action undermining the security of the region. He was transferred for the purpose of investigation to the Al-Khiam Detention Centre in the south of Lebanon which the Government stated was under the control of the SLA and not its responsibility. The Government stated that, in its contacts with the SLA in relation to the Al-Khiam Detention Centre, it had encouraged the establishment of adequate conditions and improved standards which conform to international standards for the protection of human rights. It stated that to this end, the International Committee of the Red Cross and families of detainees visit the detention centre. The Government further replied