E/CN.4/2000/9 page 74 assistant and three other police officers began to beat him. Two wires were allegedly clipped to each of his ears and then connected to what was described as looking like a telephone. When the telephone receiver rotated, he reportedly received an electric shock. His hands and legs were then allegedly tied and his feet were beaten with clubs. On the evening of the same day, his nephew, Mohamed Ismael Bakr, was summoned to the police station and was subjected to similar treatment by the same police officers. Following their release on the following day, they reported the torture to the Kayloub prosecution office. Forensic examinations ordered by the prosecution concluded that the wounds corresponded with what would result from direct contact with electricity. The Attorney General is reported to have decided to close the case, despite the findings of the forensic report. 365. Fathi Basyouni Mohamed was allegedly subjected to torture by an officer of the criminal investigations unit of Kafr Al-Sheikh Security Directorate on 9 June 1998. After being held for five hours, he was allegedly attacked by the criminal investigations officer and a number of detectives. They allegedly beat him with fists and sticks, and kicked him severely on the face and other parts of his body. As a result, he reportedly suffered a fracture of the left arm and visible bruises in several parts of his body. The head of the Lawyers Syndicate in Kafr Al-Sheikh reported the incident to the Kafr Al-Sheikh Prosecution Office. 366. Mohamed Saeed Mohamed was allegedly detained and tortured by a police officer from Al-Zawya Al-Hamra on 12 and 13 June 1998. The police officer, who arrested him, was reportedly not satisfied when Mohamed gave him his passport and verbally assaulted Mohamed. When he objected to the verbal assault, the officer allegedly ordered guards to throw him in a police car and he was taken to the police station. At the police station he was allegedly beaten with sticks, kicked and tied to the falaka, a torture instrument used to facilitate beating on the feet. On 14 June he reportedly filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor which was referred to the North Cairo Prosecution. An examination carried out on 15 June 1998 reportedly found that he had fractures to the jaw and teeth, bruises on the buttocks and face, beneath the right eye, and wounds on the left arm and leg. 367. Sayid Abdalla Soliman was reportedly arrested on 6 September by policemen from the Basateen police station in front of his home in the Cairo district of Dar Al-Salaam. He, along with his mother, sister and brother, were allegedly taken to the Kars Al-Nil police station to be questioned about a theft with violence reported by a woman for whom his mother worked as a cleaner. Reportedly, when he was asked his whereabouts at the time of the theft, he stated that he was visiting a relative, Akram Mohamed Hassan in Al-alam City. The police then allegedly arrested Akram, his two brothers, Hani and Emad Mohamed Hassan, and took them to the Kars al-Nil police station. All of them were allegedly handcuffed, suspended from the door of the detention room and beaten on several parts of the body. It is further reported that Mohamed Ahmed Ali, the brother-in-law of Sayid Abdalla Soliman, was arrested. Moreover, on the following day the wife of Sayid Abdalla Soliman, Mervat Mohamed Hassan, was allegedly detained when she visited the police station to enquire about her husband. The police allegedly threatened her with rape, and attacked her to force her to make a confession against her husband. The police allegedly arrested two other relatives of the accused, and detained and beat them in the station to extract information from them about the theft. Nine of those arrested were subsequently released, reportedly on condition that they reported to the