E/CN.4/2001/66 page 126 Urgent appeals and replies received 645. On 28 January 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Hussein ‘Atawi, Abbas ‘Awada, Zeinab ‘Abd al-Majid al-Surur (f) and Hussein ‘Ali Qasem who had reportedly recently been arrested by the South Lebanon Army and were believed to be held at the Khiam detention centre. 646. On 4 February 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on behalf of Yussuf Mohammed Jum’a Kanan, a resident of Han-Yunes in the Gaza Strip, who had reportedly been arrested in Bat-Yam on 18 January 2000 allegedly because he was working in a restaurant without a legal work permit. He has since then been detained at the General Security Service Interrogation Unit of the Shikma Detention Centre in Ashkelon. On 20 January 2000, his lawyer is said to have been denied access to him and an order prohibiting meeting with counsel is said to have been constantly imposed. On 31 January 2000, a petition that this order be lifted was reportedly filed with the High Court of Justice. 647. On 8 February 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Bassam Na’im Ashak Natshe who had allegedly been arrested in Halhul and has been detained in the GSS interrogation unit of the Shikma detention centre in Ashkelon since. An order prohibiting meeting with counsel had been imposed until 6 January and was later extended several times. 648. On 9 February 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Oda Ahmed Mohammed Zaharan, a resident of Jordan, originally from the village of Dir Abu-ashal (near Ramallah) who had reportedly been arrested on Allenby Bridge and had allegedly been detained in the General Security Service interrogation unit of the Jerusalem detention centre since then. An order prohibiting meeting with counsel had been imposed until 4 February 2000 and was later extended owing to “necessities of interrogation”. On 30 March 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent further information to the Government according to which Oda Ahmed Mohammed Zaharan was permitted to meet his lawyer on 8 March, but had since been held incommunicado. 649. On 3 March 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Nimr Khaza’al, Sawsan Khaz’al his daughter, and Munif Abbas Khalili, who had reportedly been arrested on 17 February 2000 in the villages of Aynata and ‘Ayta al-Sah’b. It is alleged that they were held at Khiam detention centre. 650. On 9 March 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Abu-Tam’a, a student of the Al-Quds University, who had reportedly been arrested on 17 February 2000. He was allegedly detained in the General Security Service interrogation unit of the Russian Compound detention centre in Jerusalem. He was held in incommunicado detention for over two weeks. Since his arrest, he has reportedly been interrogated from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day without a break.