E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 15 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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