E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 145 were passed in 15 cases, 1 complaint was withdrawn and the remaining cases were still in process. As to the first six months of 1995, 547 cases were filed and preliminary investigations concerning 146 of these cases were under way. Prosecution was deemed unnecessary in 131 cases and the courts considered 24 cases to be outside their territorial jurisdiction and 36 to be outside their subject-matter jurisdiction. Of the 210 cases commenced, 28 resulted in the acquittal of the defendants, 16 resulted in cases, the courts passing sentences of imprisonment and fines, and the rest were still in process. 778. On 5 September 1995 the Government sent booklet entitled "Realities of Turkey for the delivered by the Turkish Prime Minister on 20 Assembly of the European Union and answers to the European Parliament. to the Special Rapporteur a West", containing a speech June 1995 to the Parliamentary questions posed by members of 779. On 3 November 1995 the Government transmitted information on the amendments to article 8 of the Anti-Terror Law adopted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 27 October 1995. Turkmenistan Information transmitted to the Government 780. By letter dated 29 May 1995 the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received a report that Yusup Kuliyev, a journalist, had been detained by agents of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in Ashgabat in October 1994. He was allegedly beaten severely and twice forcibly injected with pain-inducing drugs. He was questioned about an alleged assassination plot and released two weeks after his arrest, reportedly on the grounds of ill-health suffered as a result of his torture in custody. 781. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted the case of Valentin Kopysev, an ethnic Russian member of the unregistered opposition Democratic Party of Turkmenistan, who reportedly had been confined to a psychiatric hospital against his will since February 1994 for no medical reason. His confinement was said to have been ordered as punishment for his participation in opposition political activities. 782. 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. United Arab Emirates Urgent appeals transmitted 783. On 13 March 1995 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of Sheikh’Abd al-Mun’im al-’Ali, an Iraqi national living in exile in the United Arab Emirates since 1980, and ’Abd al-Jalil’Ilwan. They were reportedly arrested in mid-January following raids on their homes in Sharjah by members of the State Security police. They had since been held in incommunicado detention in the State Security headquarters in Abu Dhabi.