E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 42 Saber’s hands with rope, beat him and applied electric shocks to his testicles. This treatment resulted in injuries to his chest, marks around his wrist, a wound and scars on his arm, and bruises on his back. The station officer allegedly kicked and beat Ahmed Abdel Moniem Mohamed. Eaman Abdel El Moniem was allegedly stripped of her clothes, beaten, and threatened with rape. Mona Mohamed Gad was allegedly stripped of her clothes, and threatened with rape and electric shocks. The Public Prosecutor was said to be investigating the incident. 206. Abdel Mohamed Ibrahim was reportedly dragged down the stairs and onto the street on 29 June 1994 by an investigation squad from the 15th May-Helwan police station. He fainted and was allegedly ill-treated at the police station during one week’s detention. He was transferred to hospital, where he received stitches on his forehead and stitches above his eyebrow. He also sustained injuries to his head, back and chest. 207. Amr Mohamed Safarat, reportedly arrested and held at Ein Shams police station for nine days without food in October 1993, was allegedly subjected to torture at the police station and at SSI premises and was subsequently transferred to a hospital for mental illness. A hospital report indicated severe injuries on the back, side and legs. He died in hospital after 50 days, allegedly because of a deteriorating condition and neglect. 208. Abdel Meguid Khalifa was reportedly arrested at his home on 4 April 1994 by a force of officers and soldiers from al-Wasta, Beni Suef Governorate, along with a mobile unit from Cairo Transport Police Investigations. They were in search of his son, Ramadan Abdel Maguid, but took Abdel Meguid Khalifa in his son’s absence. On 10 April Ramadan Abdel Maguid and his brother Mahmoud Abdel Maguid were arrested and taken to the al-Wasta police station. Their mother, Fayza Abdel Salam, went to the station to inquire about the three arrested members of her family and was herself detained. She reportedly heard her husband’s screams on 3 May 1994 and rushed to find her husband with his hands and feet chained and the lower part of his body on fire, with the police station chief and others attempting to unchain him and extinguish the fire. Abdel Meguid Khalifa was transferred to hospital and died on 7 May 1994. Fayza Abdel Salam was allegedly pressured to drop a complaint filed concerning her husband’s death and remained unaware of the whereabouts of her two detained sons. 209. Fateh El Bab Abdel Monniem Shaalan and his son Yasser Fateh El Bab Abdel Moniem Shaalan were reportedly detained on 15 August 1994 at Helwan police station in connection with a charge of firearms possession. Yasser Fateh was allegedly suspended, whipped and confined in an area known as "the refrigerator". His father was allegedly beaten to death. The prosecution detained an officer, subsequently released on bail, on torture charges. 210. By the same letter, the Special Rapporteur sought from the Government clarification and follow-up information pursuant to the Government’s replies to a number of previously transmitted cases.

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