E/CN.4/2000/9 page 134 until the following day to see a doctor. She reportedly did not see a doctor until 22 April 1997 by which time the foetus was dead. 680. Yihaya Radwan Allam, an Egyptian man, reportedly contracted a skin disease in the Tokyo Detention House in November 1993, when he was allegedly placed in an unsanitary cell containing insects and faeces. During a second period of confinement in March 1994, 15 guards allegedly hit him, causing him serious injuries, including near deafness in his right ear. He has reportedly initiated legal proceedings complaining of his alleged ill-treatment in custody. Jordan Urgent appeals and replies received 681. On 11 August 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on behalf of Jotiar Yahia Latif al-Salihi, his wife, Rawiya, their daughter Chimen and their son, Latif, all Iraqi nationals who had reportedly been abducted on 9 July 1999 in Jordan by the Iraqi Intelligence Service (see above, under Iraq), and who were said to be still held in incommunicado detention in an unknown place in Jordan. 682. In the same urgent appeal they also intervened on behalf of Robar Yahia Latif al-Salihi, his brother, Omaed, his sister, Joanne, and his mother, Gulbahar, who were reportedly at risk of forcible repatriation to Iraq, where they might be at risk of torture. They were reportedly informed by security officers that their stay in Jordan had expired, the day following the publication in an London-based Arabic newspaper of an interview with Robar on the possible abduction of his brother's family. Kazakhstan Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 683. By letter dated 7 July 1999, the Government responded to all cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in September 1998 (see E/CN.4/1999/61, paras. 413-424). 684. Concerning Madel Ismailov, the Government indicated that on 2 May 1997 criminal proceedings were instituted against him for organizing activities disturbing public order. He was put in custody in a remand centre from 18 June to 17 September 1997. The Government confirmed that during this period, he was placed in a punishment cell after having declared he was on a hunger strike, but denied that he was ill-treated at any time during his detention. It further indicated that he had never complained about ill-treatment, in particular to his lawyers or during court hearings. On 17 September 1997, he was sentenced by the Almalin district court in Almaty to one year of corrective labour. The Government further indicated that on 7 April 1998 the Auezov district court in Almaty sentenced him to one year's deprivation of liberty for having publicly insulted the honour and dignity of the President. The Government noted that he had now been released from the corrective colony in Petropavlovsk after having served his sentence and that he had not lodged any complaint concerning illtreatment during his time there.