E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 90 the Islamic Republic of Iran, even after they had served their sentence, and that the death penalty not be imposed upon them. The Russian authorities had also agreed that the Norwegian authorities would visit the men in custody after their extradition to Russia. The European Commission on Human Rights rejected a petition to stay extradition proceedings on 13 January 1995 and the men were extradited to the Russian Federation on 24 January 1995. Since 27 January 1995, they had been detained in the Lefortovo prison in Moscow, where they were twice visited by the Norwegian authorities. Those authorities were satisfied with the functioning of the visiting arrangement. Pakistan Information transmitted to the Government 479. By letter dated 25 September 1995, the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received reports indicating that torture continued to occur routinely in police stations and frequently in military or paramilitary detention centres and jails throughout Pakistan. Torture was allegedly inflicted to gain information, to punish, humiliate or intimidate, to take revenge or to extract money from detainees or their families. The methods of torture reported include rape; beatings with sticks, hose pipes, leather belts and rifle butts; kicking with heavy boots; upside-down hangings; electric shocks applied to the genitalia and knees; cheera (forced stretching apart of the victim’s legs, sometimes in combination with kicks to the genitalia); sleep deprivation; prolonged blindfolding; and boring of holes with an electric drill into parts of the victim’s body. 480. Police reportedly often use excessive and disproportionate force during crowd control operations. While conducting house-to-house searches during operations in Karachi from June 1992 to November 1994 and again beginning in May 1995, the army would cordon off entire sections of the city, most frequently Liaqatabad, Lines Area, Shah Faisal Colony and Paposh Nagar, and allegedly round up, detain, blindfold and beat persons. Activists of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party were reported to be particularly targeted during such operations. 481. Police and other law enforcement personnel were alleged frequently to disregard legal safeguards contained in the Police Rules and the Code of Criminal Procedure of Pakistan concerning arrest and detention procedures. Arrested persons were sometimes held incommunicado and without charge, their arrest or detention going unrecorded, rendering them vulnerable to torture or ill-treatment. In many instances, victims of torture or ill-treatment reportedly were unable effectively to register complaints with the police, as officials either refused to register first information reports (FIRs), distorted the complaint contained in the FIR or delayed investigatory proceedings. Many persons were dissuaded from registering complaints for fear of retaliation and further abuse from police. Medical reports and post-mortem reports were in some cases allegedly falsified so as to support the police version of events. 482. The cases summarized in the following paragraphs were transmitted to the Government.