E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 123 652. The following persons, associated either with the banned Umma political party or with the leadership of the Ansar religious order, were reportedly arrested in May 1995 and detained in the security services wing of Kober prison in Khartoum: Fadlalla Burma Nasir, a former cabinet minister; Ali al-Omda Abdel Magid, a former member of parliament; Abdel Nabi Ali Ahmad, a former Governor of Darfur; Tebira Idris Habani, a former member of parliament; Ali Hassan Taj al-Din, a former member of the State Supreme Council; Abu Bakr Abdel Magid al-Amir, secretary to a former Prime Minister; Hussein Adam Salama, former secretary of the Umma party headquarters; Abdel Mahmud Abu, an imam of the Ansar religious order; Tirab Tendal, a prominent member of the Ansar religious order; Sheik Abdallah Ishaq, imam of the al-Mahdi mosque; and Ahmad Musa. They were reportedly being held incommunicado, without access to lawyers or to their families (6 June 1995). 653. Dr. Hashim Zeyada and Dr. Giueseppe Meuo (an Italian national), both medical personnel with the humanitarian relief agency Comitato Colaborazione Medica, were reportedly arrested on or around 29 May 1995 in Pariang by officials of the Sudanese Army stationed in Bentiu (8 June 1995). 654. On 12 June 1995 the Government replied that the two doctors had entered the Sudan illegally. The Government had lodged a strong protest with the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs concerning the "hostile activities" of the United Nations Coordinator for Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) in Nairobi, as Giuseppe Meuo had entered the Sudan without a visa on an aircraft belonging to OLS. Giuseppe Meuo was detained by the Sudanese authorities and was moved to Khartoum for interrogation. The Italian Ambassador in Khartoum had been given access to him. 655. Hassan Hussein, Abdallah Musa, Mahjoub al-Zubeir, Ali al-Khattib, Haj Musa ’Abd al-Rahim, Moatssim Siam, Sulieman Khalaf Allah, Khalil Osman Khalil, Galal Ismail, Abdul Rahman Al-Amin, Imad Ali Dahab, Said Ashakir, Faqiri Abdallah, Abdul Azim Abdullah and Mahir Mekki were reportedly arrested in late May 1995 in Port Sudan by security officials and had since been held without charge (17 August 1995). 656. An urgent appeal was made in conjunction with the Chairman of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, in connection with incidents following a series of mass demonstrations beginning on 9 September 1995 at Khartoum University and continuing at various locations. A number of persons had been wounded or killed when security forces reportedly opened fire on the demonstrators at Khartoum University. It was alleged that security forces had been instructed to break the arms of demonstrators and that the arms of 17-year-old student, Mutaz Abdel Mon’im Khalif, were broken. A large number of persons had also been arrested and were being held incommunicado at unknown locations. These were said to include the following lawyers: Mustafa Abdel Gadir, former secretary-general of the banned Sudan Bar Association; Ali El-Sayed, former member of the Sudan Bar Association; and Bushra Abdel Karim, former secretary-general of the Sudanese Youth Union (19 September 1995).