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this treatment, he usually suffered bruised or bleeding buttocks, leaving him
unable to sleep or sit for three or four days afterwards. He was said to have
thus far received 3,400 lashes (2 August 1995).
588. Ibrahim ’Abd al-Rahman al-Hudayf was reportedly sentenced to 300 lashes
and 18 years’ imprisonment after being convicted in a secret trial of
participation in the planning of an attack on a security officer and of
membership in the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights
(17 August 1995).
589. Hamid Bin Nazal Bin Mahbub al-’Anzi, Riad Bin Kuleyb Bin Salim al-Mutay,
Morris Bin Sayf al-Sahli, ’Abd al-’Aziz Bin Zayd al-Sahli, ’Abdullah Bin
Muhammad al-’Anzi, ’Aday Bin Tayib al-’Anzi, Hamdan Bin Salih Bin Hadi
al-Mukhlis, Nawaf Bin Farraj al-Harbi, Nadir Bin Fahid Bin Musfir al-Dawsari,
Salih Bin Muslih al-Shahri, and Mohammad Bin Abdullah al-Huta were reportedly
convicted of charges in connection with membership of a criminal gang. They
were sentenced to prison terms of between 2 and 15 years and to 200 to
1,500 lashes to be carried out 50 lashes at a time (18 September 1995).
Slovakia
Information transmitted to the Government and replies received
590. By letter dated 29 May 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government
that he had received information concerning the case of Cyril Dunka. He had
reportedly been ill-treated by police in Krompahy on 22 June 1993, after he
had illegally parked his car. Police officers were also said to have struck
in the face Jozef Horváth, the brother of Cyril Dunka’s wife, after he had
failed to produce his identification. Three officers then allegedly started
to beat Cyril Dunka, upon which he attempted to flee, stopping after a warning
shot was fired. An officer subsequently hit him on the neck and he fell to
the ground, whereupon he was allegedly kicked several times. At the local
police station the beatings continued. He filed a complaint about the alleged
ill-treatment with the investigator in Spišská Nová Ves on 6 July 1993. The
complaint was rejected in November 1993, but on 21 September 1993 the
investigator filed criminal charges against Cyril Dunka for assaulting a
police officer.
591. On 14 September 1995 the Government replied that Cyril Dunka was
convicted on 6 February 1995 of assault on a police officer and his appeal was
dismissed on 18 April 1995. The district court had established that
Cyril Dunka had physically assaulted a municipal police officer and then had
fled the scene. When pursued by another officer, he did not obey the warnings
to stop, but instead threatened the officer with a stone. The officer tripped
Cyril Dunka and he fell face-down on the ground and injured himself. A
medical certificate indicated that he had suffered an abrasion of the left
cheek and an x-ray, taken two weeks later, revealed a fracture of the nose.
The medical specialist had neither ruled out nor confirmed that the fracture
had occurred on the date of the incident in question. The records indicated
that no torture, tormenting treatment or undue violence had been carried out
by municipal police and that they had used appropriate means to overcome the
resistance of Cyril Dunka.
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