E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 133 708. Haci Og ˘uz, Chairman of the Siirt branch of the HRA, was reportedly arrested on 17 January 1994. He had previously been detained and allegedly tortured from February to June 1993 and had been acquitted in December 1993 of charges of being a guerrilla. During his latter detention he spent three days under interrogation at Sehit Erol police station, during which he was allegedly subjected to falaqa, suspension, electric shocks, hosing with freezing pressurized water, continuous beatings, and threats that his family would be tortured. 709. According to the Government, it had been established through a medical report of the Siirt forensic physician dated 19 January 1994 that Haci Og ˘uz and his family were not subjected to torture or ill-treatment during their detention. He had not lodged any complaints or taken any legal proceedings on the ground of torture. In addition, a medical report of the Siirt health clinic had established that he was not subjected to torture or ill-treatment during his detention in 1993. 710. Abdullah Salman, aged 13, was reportedly interrogated at S ¸is ¸li police headquarters in Istanbul in November 1994, under accusation of theft from the shop at which he served as an apprentice. He was allegedly blindfolded, beaten, choked and subjected to electric shocks through his toes during three days of interrogation. The charges against him were said to be false, as the stolen money was later recovered from another worker. A medical report confirmed injuries to his shoulders, arms and neck. A psychiatric evaluation revealed him to be in an abnormal condition. His mother lodged a complaint against the police with the public prosecutor in ¸ Sis ¸li and was allegedly offered a bribe by the police to drop the complaint, which she refused. 711. The Government replied that a public case was commenced on 27 March 1995 against the police officer in chief of S ¸is ¸li police station on the charge of ill-treatment. The case was under way. 712. Sultan Aygün and her husband, Garip Aygün, were reportedly detained in Istanbul on 18 January 1995 in connection with a traffic accident. Sultan Aygün was allegedly handcuffed to a radiator, beaten and subjected to threats that her daughter would be detained and raped. Garip Aygün was allegedly blindfolded and subjected to falaqa for the purpose of coercing a confession to traffic offences. Reports from the Forensic Medical Institute confirmed that both of these persons had sustained injuries. 713. ¸ Sükrü Tas ¸ and a number of other persons were detained at the Anti-Terror branch of Istanbul police headquarters on 5 January 1995 in connection with alleged activities in the banned Revolutionary Communist Party. S ¸ükrü Tas ¸ was allegedly taken to an underground area and while naked and blindfolded was hung by the arms seven or eight times with his forearms bound together behind his back, causing him to pass out. He was also allegedly beaten on the soles of his feet, a truncheon was pushed against his rectum, his testicles were squeezed and his hair was pulled. He was released on 14 January 1995. A medical report by the Forensic Medical Institute revealed the presence of injuries and a diagnostic report of the Istanbul Treatment Centre of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation showed radiological evidence of "damage to the brachial plexus" and confirmed the presence of injuries consistent with torture.