E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 79 reported to have ceased several months after they were reported to the Nakuru district officer. However, it was believed that no investigations or prosecutions were carried out in connection with these incidents. 422. Truphena Obwaka Shirako was arrested in January 1994 under accusation of theft from her employer and allegedly tortured by four policemen at Langas police station, Uasin Gishu district. Her ordeal was said to include beatings, insertion of a bottle into her vagina, and insertion of an officer’s hand into her vagina to search for money. As a consequence of her treatment, she suffered serious injuries and was hospitalized. The trial of two officers charged in connection with the incident with "indecent assault and assault causing actual bodily harm" began in late 1994, but had been adjourned repeatedly. 423. Richard Leakey, founder of the Safina political party, and Njeri Kabeberi, were among a number of Safina supporters reportedly assaulted by Special Branch officers dressed in plain-clothes outside of Nakuru magistrate’s court on 10 August 1995. The officers allegedly threw stones and eggs at these persons and then singled out Richard Leakey for a severe beating. Provincial police officers (CID) were said to have threatened to shoot onlookers if they tried to intervene. 424. The Government replied that the allegation that the assault on Richard Leakey and Njeri Kabeberi was perpetrated by Special Branch officers was unfounded. The assault had been carried out by unruly criminal elements, a number of whom were arrested soon thereafter and charged with the offence. The case was before a competent court. 425. 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. Latvia Information transmitted to the Government 426. By letter dated 23 October 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information according to which a hunger strike staged by 140 asylum-seekers detained at Olaine prison had been broken up violently on 1 September 1995 by the Mobile Police Force. Members of the police allegedly beat some prisoners severely. Access to the prison was reportedly denied to outside persons until 6 September, when two clergymen were allowed into the prison. They were said to have observed marks of ill-treatment on many detainees, including children and the elderly. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Urgent appeals transmitted 427. On 12 September 1995 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal concerning dozens of Islamists who were reportedly arrested beginning 6 September 1995 in Benghazi and other coastal areas, including Darna,