E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 67 transferred to police custody in Mascarenhas, Dili. Ricky Valmero, also reportedly held in police custody, is alleged to have been tortured (2 March 1995). 359. Remigio Levi da Costa Tilman and Pedro Nunes Sabalae were reportedly arrested on 30 June 1995 in Dili on apparent suspicion of involvement in pro-independence activities. They were said to be held in the headquarters of SGI of the Subregional Military Command for East Timor in the Colmera district of Dili (4 July 1995). 360. Between 50 and 100 persons were reportedly detained by police and military officers in Dili since rioting broke out on 8 September 1995. It was reported that while some of the detainees might have been released, a number of others were continuing to be held in unknown places of detention (12 September 1995). 361. On 20 September 1995 the Government replied that violent demonstrations had broken out in Dili following two incidents of religious intolerance, one in which a warden at the Maliana correctional institution reportedly made an offensive remark against Catholicism and another involving protests against the marriage of a Protestant and a Catholic in Uatolari, Viqueque. The police had arrested 80 persons suspected of involvement in arson attacks in the city and in this connection 18 persons would be brought to court. Those detained had not been held in unknown places of detention and were not subjected to torture or ill-treatment. Iran (Islamic Republic of) Information transmitted to the Government 362. By letter dated 23 October 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information according to which persons detained for political reasons were often held incommunicado, sometimes for years, and were almost always denied access to lawyers. The procedures under which such persons were detained and tried typically went unpublicized, but many detainees were said to be held without charge or trials. Most such detainees had allegedly been tortured and a number had been denied access to medical care. 363. 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. Urgent appeals 364. On 2 March 1995 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of opposition activists Mollah Ahmad Khezri and Majid Sulduzi, who were reportedly being held without charge or trial at Orumiyeh prison. They were said to have been previously living in exile in Iraqi Kurdistan, since fleeing Iran in 1992.