E/CN.4/2000/9 page 122 chair with his hands held being his back. His brother Mahmoud was allegedly held in solitary confinement in a small cell, hooded with a dirty bag, violently shaken, exposed to intolerably loud music and deprived of food and sleep, and he was threatened that his mother and sister would be raped in front of him. 621. Ahmed Yosef Bayed was allegedly placed in administrative detention on 5 March 1999. On 15 April, he was reportedly transferred to the General Security Service (GSS) Interrogation Unit in Petah Tikva. He was allegedly forced to sit in the shabeh position daily - on a low chair with his wrists bound behind him, with a wet, stinking sack on his head, making breathing difficult, and with loud music blaring constantly. He was also allegedly deprived of sleep. 622. Ali Abu Ras was allegedly arrested on 4 May 1999 and detained at the GSS Interrogation Unit of Jerusalem's Russian Compound Detention Centre. He was allegedly forced to sit in the shabeh position day and night with his wrists tightly cuffed behind him. 623. Bassam and Hasan Al-Arabid, brothers, were allegedly arrested on 11 February 1999 at the Erez checkpoint, while they were leaving the Gaza Strip to work in Israel. Their arrests were allegedly related to the case of their brother, Saad Al-Arabid, who is wanted by Israeli security forces for his alleged affiliation to Izz Eddin Al-Qassam, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement. The brothers were allegedly subjected to torture during interrogation, including the shabeh position. They were also subjected to loud music and isolated in individual cells. 624. Ahmed Rashid Hussein Haled was reportedly arrested on 28 March 1999 and detained in the GSS interrogation unit of the Kishon Detention Centre. On 13 April 1999, his remand was extended by the military court for 15 days. He reportedly gave his lawyer an affidavit stating that his interrogators had tortured him. 625. Haled Suliman Abu Hassan was reportedly arrested on 15 March 1999 and detained at the GSS interrogation unit of the Kishon Detention Centre. During the remand hearing on 5 April, it is reported that he informed his attorney that he was not allowed to sleep, and that his interrogators were forcing him to sit in the shabeh position almost continuously. 626. Abd el-Razak Hasib and his brother, Muhmed Sa'id Razak Hasib, both from Ramallah, were reportedly arrested on 20 and 25 September 1998, respectively, and held in incommunicado detention at the GSS unit of Jerusalem's Russian Compound for three weeks. They were allegedly both beaten while interrogated. They were deprived of sleep for 12 days. 627. Regarding Khiam Detention Centre, the Special Rapporteur has received information on the following individuals. 628. Soleiman Ramadan was allegedly beaten and kicked on 14 July 1999 when he told Israeli officers that a food strike would continue within the detention centre. All the detainees were allegedly led blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs to the prison yard. The Israeli officers then allegedly threatened to beat the detainees if they should go on with the food strike on 14 July, the day for Lebanese detainees. On 20 May 1999, the officers are also alleged to have made a direct threat to Soleiman Ramadan of "amputating" his other leg and moving him to Nafha prison for the rest of his life for attempting