E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 130 688. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted the individual cases described in the following paragraphs to the Government. On 14 November 1995 the Government replied to some of these cases. Those responses are summarized below following the corresponding allegation. 689. Ali Karaca, from the Kom village of Ibimahmut, was reportedly detained in early October 1994 by soldiers from the Ataçinari gendarmerie post, who allegedly tortured him near his house. They then sent him by helicopter first to the Ataçinari gendarmerie post and then to Tunceli, where police found him on the side of a road and took him to hospital. He was transferred to Elazig ˇ State Hospital and died after spending three days in a coma. His family members were informed initially by hospital personnel that there were signs of blows to his body and that he had died of blows to his head. After soldiers allegedly intervened at the hospital, the family were told that he had in fact died of meningitis and high blood pressure. 690. According to the Government, Ali Karaca had not been taken into custody by the security forces in October 1994. He had died of meningitis in hospital on 10 October 1994. A complaint had been made to the Tunceli office of the chief public prosecutor, but the case was considered to be outside the jurisdiction of that office as to subject-matter. An investigation was under way by the governorate of Tunceli. 691. Bedri Tan, headman of the village of Kadiköy, was reportedly detained on 13 September 1994 by officials from the Diyarbakir regimental gendarmerie headquarters and the Hani gendarmerie headquarters. He was allegedly interrogated under torture in his house and thereafter taken away. His family, summoned the next day to pick up his body at the Hani gendarmerie headquarters, found the upper half of the body dismembered and evidence of injuries to his upper torso. Although the gendarmes maintained that he was killed by a land-mine, the fact that the injuries were sustained to the upper part of his body was said to render that explanation unlikely. 692. The Government replied that Bedri Tan had in fact been killed by a land-mine, while he was leading security forces to a Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) sanctuary in Gömeç village of Hani district, Diyarbakir province. An autopsy conducted in the presence of the Hani public prosecutor revealed that death was due to dismemberment of the abdomen. No complaints were lodged or legal proceedings taken on the ground of torture. 693. Garip Ölmez, from the village of Yog ˘urtyemez in the Ahlat district of Bitlis, was reportedly arrested on 4 April 1994 and interrogated at Bitlis gendarmerie headquarters. His family, called 10 days later to retrieve his body from the mortuary, observed injuries to the head and stomach and marks of binding on the ankles. His feet had apparently been burned with melted plastic. The family submitted a petition of complaint to the Ahlat prosecutor’s office, but the complaint was reportedly rejected. 694. Cihan Akkum was reportedly detained on 10 August 1994 by police from the Anti-Terror branch of Diyarbakir police headquarters and subsequently died in custody. The police maintained that he had committed suicide by hanging himself with a sheet while in custody. His father was taken on 25 August