E/CN.4/2001/66 page 104 offered medical treatment, which he accepted. The Government noted that two police officers had to be treated at the hospital for several injuries, including a bite, bruises and swellings. The policemen concerned instituted legal proceedings for bodily injury. The public prosecutor’s investigation against Serge Menga-Nsibu for resisting law enforcement officials was discontinued by the Essen district court on a provisional basis. Finally, he was ordered to pay DM 2,000 by 2 May 2001 to the policeman who suffered the more severe injuries. Urgent appeals and replies received 522. On 22 February 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of ‘Abd al-Akher Hammad and Muhi al-Din Ahmad ‘Abd al-Mun’im and their families, who are Egyptian citizens and who reportedly applied for asylum at Frankfurt airport on 26 January 2000. Their asylum applications are said to have been conducted in the transit zone of Frankfurt-am-Main airport under the special “airport procedure” and to have been refused on 31 January 2000 as being manifestly unfounded (“offentsichtlich unbegründet”) by the Federal Office for the Recognition of Refugees. Their appeals to the administrative court are said to have been turned down on 16 February and 15 February 2000 respectively. ‘Abd al-Akher Hammad is reportedly suspected of being one of the leadership in exile of the armed wing of the Islamist group al-Gama’a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), which he allegedly denies. Muhi al-Din Ahmad ‘Abd al-Mun’im was reportedly tried by an (Emergency) Supreme State Security Court and sentenced to a seven-year prison term for “membership in a secret illegal organization intending to overthrow the government” which he is said to have served from 1981 to 1988. 523. On 29 February 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent further information to the Government on the case mentioned above. In particular, it was reported that the persons concerned were now facing imminent and forcible repatriation to Iran, from where they may be forcibly repatriated to Egypt. 524. By letter dated 13 March 2000, the Government replied that it would not deport the two Egyptian nationals to any country where they could be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and would not deport them to their home country, irrespective of the fact that their asylum requests were unfounded. Guatemala 525. By letter dated 8 November 2000, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1998 regarding which no reply had been received. Observations 526. The Special Rapporteur considers it appropriate to draw to the attention of the Commission the findings of the Committee against Torture on its consideration in November 2000 of the periodic report of Guatemala under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which expressed concern about: “[e]l deterioro de la situación de los derechos humanos en Guatemala, en especial el incremento de los casos verificados de torturas y de tratos crueles, inhumanoes y degradantes en relación con la situación que se observaba cuando el Comité examinó el segundo informe periódico.