E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 48 suspension upside down by his feet and by his wrists with hands tied behind his back; application of electric shocks to his hands, feet, body and penis; insertion of an object, possibly the leg of a chair, into his rectum; and by hosing with and immersion into ice-cold water. A medical examination conducted in Germany reportedly documented scars consistent with these allegations. Subsequent to his release from detention in Turkey, he went into hiding, and during that time his pregnant wife was allegedly beaten severely by police in the course of a raid on his house in Istanbul. In November 1991 he was reportedly acquitted for lack of evidence by the State Security Court in Diyarbakir of supporting the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). He was reported to have fled Turkey and reached Germany in May 1991, following continued harassment. 238. On 17 February 1995 the Government replied that the authorities and administrative courts in charge of examining requests by asylum-seekers had determined that Fariz S ¸ims ¸ek’s claims of political persecution in Turkey were implausible. In addition, the Government of Turkey had officially represented that it would not subject him to any persecution. Nevertheless, at the request of the Federal Constitutional Court, he had not been deported or detained for deportation. That Court would be re-examining his case. Greece Urgent appeals transmitted and replies received 239. On 13 November 1995 the Special Rapporteur made an urgent appeal on behalf of Geng Dauti, a 16-year-old national of Albania, who was reportedly detained on or around 2 November 1995 by police after the boat on which he was travelling ran out of fuel and drifted towards Greek territorial waters. He had allegedly been beaten in custody at Corfu police station and was not granted access to a lawyer or doctor. 240. The Government replied that Geng Dauti had been charged in connection with the alleged theft of a speedboat. He had not requested a doctor or lawyer, either during his initial detention at the central harbour-master’s office, nor during his subsequent detention by the Corfu police. He had appeared before an examining magistrate on 3 November 1995 and was being held in the juvenile prison in Volos pending trial. India Information transmitted to the Government and replies received 241. On 11 April 1995 the Special Rapporteur transmitted a letter advising the Government that he had received information indicating that torture was practised routinely by the army, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) against the vast majority of persons arrested for political reasons in Jammu and Kashmir. Official investigations into allegations of torture, including those that resulted in custodial deaths, were said to be rare. On the few occasions where such investigations had taken place, they were carried out by the security forces themselves, rather than by an independent body. The investigations were said frequently to conclude that the victim had died in such circumstances as a "cross-fire",