E/CN.4/2000/9 page 94 Administration, where he is said to have been tortured by passing electric current through wires attached to his fingers. He reportedly confessed in writing to murdering his step-mother after five days. An investigation is said to have been opened into his allegations. 462. Jemal Teloyan, a Kurd, was reportedly arrested on 6 May 1998 by four plainclothes police officers from the Gldani district of Tbilisi near the Akhmeteli metro station. He was reportedly taken to Gldani district police station, where he was allegedly severely beaten and punched while an officer sat on him as he was lying on the floor. He was reportedly accused of possessing a gun at home that he should bring to them. It is alleged that the officers then approached his mother, whom they knew worked as a trader near the Akhmeteli metro station, brought her to the police station and demanded that she bring money to obtain her son's release. The sum mentioned was US$ 1,000. The mother is said to have raised a sum of money and handed it over to the officers, whereupon Jemal Teloyan was released. Two of the four police officers involved allegedly visited him at home several times after his release and made verbal threats against him in order to force him not to report the incident. He reportedly subsequently went into hiding. Officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs reportedly visited the family after his father submitted a written complaint. 463. Jaba Ioseliani, head of the now disbanded paramilitary Mkhedrioni (Horsemen) organization, and 14 other defendants were reportedly on trial in December 1997 for a range of offences, including involvement in a failed assassination attempt on President Eduard Shevardnadze in August 1995. Thirteen of the defendants are said to have claimed that they were beaten or otherwise ill-treated during interrogations in pre-trial detention. Gocha Gelashvili is reported to have suffered two broken ribs and a broken right arm, allegedly as a result of the torture he was subjected to. Gocha Tediashvili allegedly had his teeth pulled with pliers and explosive material placed in his mouth, which was only removed when he agreed to confess as instructed by the investigators. A court-ordered forensic medical examination of five of the defendants was reportedly carried out at the beginning of the year. Although certain injuries were recorded at the investigation, such as the fracture of Gocha Gelashvili's right arm caused by the impact of a heavy blunt object, conclusions as to the circumstances surrounding the injuries were reportedly not drawn, owing to, amongst other things, the passage of time since the injuries were said to have been sustained. Germany Urgent appeals and replies received 464. On 5 March 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Mohammed El-Ayachi, a former member of the Algerian army who was said to have deserted because of alleged violations of human rights. His request for asylum is said to have been conducted in the transit zone of the Frankfurt-am-Main airport according to special procedure rules. His request is believed to have been rejected on 23 September 1998 because it was manifestly ill-founded. He was reportedly awaiting imminent deportation. On 9 October 1998, the administrative tribunal of Frankfurt-am-Main declared inadmissible his request for a stay of implementation of the deportation order pending the determination of his appeal, reportedly because of a delay in the submission of this request by his lawyer.