E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 65 346. Fifty-six persons were reportedly detained by army troops and riot police on 27 June 1994 in the vicinity of the Ministry of Information in Jakarta during a demonstration of about 300 persons protesting the banning of three news magazines. The following were among the detainees allegedly beaten prior to arrest: Edo, a university student from Bandung, was allegedly beaten on the head and suffered a concussion requiring his hospitalization; Effendi Saman, a staff member of the Legal Aid Institute (LBH), from Nusantara, was allegedly beaten on the head, causing bleeding; Eli, from Garut, was allegedly beaten, resulting in broken fingers and his hospitalization; Este Adi, a journalist with Jakarta-Jakarta magazine was allegedly beaten in the face; Hadi Ciptono, a staff member of the non-governmental organization KASUM, from Surabaya, was allegedly beaten on the head, resulting in bleeding; Irwan, from Garut, was allegedly beaten, resulting in a broken rib and hospitalization; Semsar Siahaan, an artist, was allegedly beaten severely on the leg and was hospitalized as a result; Yudhi, a member of GMNI-Bandung, was allegedly beaten, suffered a head wound, and was hospitalized and received 16 stitches; W.S. Rendra, a leader of Bengkel Theatre, was allegedly beaten. 347. Sapto Rahardjo, Yulianto Bernardy, Thomas Henry Kurniawanto, and Ellyasa Budianto were reportedly detained by security forces in central Jakarta on 21 September 1994, after they had released balloons bearing labour rights messages. At the regional headquarters of the military Coordinating Agency for the Maintenance of National Stability (Bakorstanasda) in Jakarta, they were interrogated for two days and nights under the supervision of high-ranking military intelligence officers. The officers allegedly forced the men to strip, beat and kicked them and subjected them to electric shocks with a charged baton and a hand-operated generator. Sapto Rahardjo and Thomas Henry Kurniawanto were reportedly threatened with execution. 348. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted allegations he had received with respect to cases in East Timor, which are summarized in the following paragraphs. 349. Amarão dos Santos, the village head of Haupu, Letefoho subdistrict, Ermera, East Timor, was allegedly beaten severely by military officers in January 1994 after having submitted a report to government authorities about the alleged beating by a military officer and subsequent hospitalization on 27 December 1993 of villager Domingos Sama Lelo. 350. Mateus Alfonso, reportedly arrested on 23 July 1994 in Taci Tolu by soldiers from the Kopassus special forces unit, was allegedly beaten publicly, after admitting to a role in organizing a demonstration at the University of East Timor on 14 July 1994. He was subsequently taken away by the soldiers and his whereabouts were unknown. 351. Domingas da Silva, having helped a German television crew to return to their hotel in the midst of a demonstration in Dili in November 1994, requested that the crew accompany him to army headquarters so he could explain to the military officers that he had been assisting the crew and had not been involved in the political demonstrations. At army headquarters, plain-clothes