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58.
The Special Rapporteur also transmitted the following four cases in which
sentences pronounced by a salish amounting to torture or ill-treatment were
carried out and no prosecution of those responsible was reported to have been
undertaken: (a) Roqaiya was reportedly convicted and sentenced by a salish in
Sultanpur village, Farhadnagar union, Feni district on 9 January 1994 for
having an extramarital relationship and giving birth to a child. She was then
allegedly partly stripped, covered with black paint or tar, garlanded with
shoes and paraded through the village streets; (b) Rezia Khatun was reportedly
forced to drink her own urine after being found guilty of adultery by a salish
around August 1994 in Bara Chaimati village in Kishoreganj district;
(c) Sahahida was allegedly publicly caned 100 times on 16 September 1994
pursuant to a sentence ordered by a salish in Jamgora village in Savar near
Dhaka because she had given birth to a child following an extramarital
relationship; (d) Julekha, a 13-year-old girl, was allegedly flogged 101 times
on 8 October 1994 by the local cleric in a village in Satkhira district, after
he had found her guilty of an extramarital relationship. As a result, she was
taken to hospital unconscious.
59.
The Special Rapporteur further transmitted two cases in which sentences
were reportedly pronounced by the salish which, if carried out, would amount
to torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. The victims were said thus far
to have evaded the infliction of punishment by fleeing their respective
villages and taking shelter elsewhere. Dulali, a young unmarried woman, was
reportedly sentenced in a fatwa issued on 18 January 1994 by an imam in
Balchura village, Noahkali district to be caned 101 times in public for
allegedly having an extramarital relationship with a local married man.
Sapnahar, a 13-year-old girl, was reportedly sentenced on 11 May 1994 to be
publicly flogged 101 times after she became pregnant after being raped by a
villager in Dhamsa village, Brahmanbaria district in August or September 1993.
The alleged rapist was himself acquitted because the four adult male Muslim
witnesses of good repute required under Shar’ia to establish rape were not
available.
60.
By the same letter the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a
number of cases transmitted in 1994 regarding which no reply had been
received.
Bolivia
Llamamientos urgentes y respuestas del Gobierno sobre los mismos
61.
Durante 1995, el Relator Especial envió dos llamamientos urgentes al
Gobierno. El primero, transmitido el 28 de abril de 1995, se refería a un
grupo de sindicalistas de la Central Obrera Boliviana y otros sindicatos, que
formaban parte de un grupo de más de 300 personas detenidas a raíz de la
declaración del estado de emergencia el 18 de abril de 1995, principalmente en
las regiones de Colcha K., Ramón Darío y San Joaquín (departamento de Beni),
Puerto Rico (departamento de Pando) y Apolo (departamento de La Paz). En los
informes recibidos se indicaba que muchos de los detenidos habían sido
sometidos a golpes y descargas eléctricas y que las familias no habían sido
autorizadas a visitarlos. También se indicaba que cuatro de ellos se
encontraban en mal estado de salud y no estaban recibiendo tratamiento médico.
Con fecha 8 de mayo de 1995, el Gobierno respondió que en ningún momento se
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