E/CN.4/2001/66 page 163 were all reportedly arrested on 11 April 2000 during a police raid on their village. Some were allegedly beaten at the time of arrest. As a result, some of them are in poor health, but they have been denied medical care in detention at police headquarters in Port Harcourt, the capital of River State. The River State authorities are said to claim that the police went to the village of K-Dere in the early hours of 11 April to quell inter-communal unrest between the inhabitants and those of a neighbouring village, and were ambushed by youths who seized and seriously injured eight officers and burned police vehicles. The raid on K-Dere and arrests by armed officers of the Mobile Police were reportedly not provoked by any community unrest and police reportedly shot dead Barinaadua Jungle Gbaraka when he tried to escape arrest. After youths had allegedly injured police officers in retaliation, dozens of armed officers are believed to have returned to the village, killed at least five people and burned down homes. The police were accompanied by a senior local government official and associates who identified as targets those who had opposed a road-building project by a company contracted to the Shell oil company. 830. On 29 September 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, a 17-year-old girl, who had reportedly been arrested by police in July 2000 and received a sentence of 180 strokes of the cane by a shariah (Islamic law) court in Tsafe, Zamfara State, in early September 2000. She is reported to have been sentenced to 100 lashes for allegedly having had sexual relations outside marriage and a further 80 lashes for allegedly falsely accusing three men of having sexual relations with her. It is believed that the sentence is not to be carried out until at least 40 days after the delivery of her baby, which is allegedly expected in November 2000. 831. By the same urgent appeal, the Special Rapporteur also intervened on behalf of Musa Gummi, who had reportedly been convicted of stealing three bicycles and sentenced to have his hand amputated, according to a statement made by a Zamfara State official on 23 September 2000. Pakistan 832. By letter dated 8 November 2000, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 regarding which no reply had been received. Urgent appeals 833. On 2 March 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Dr. Farooq Sattar, former mayor of Karachi and parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) in Sindh, who had reportedly been detained on 26 November 1999 in the Military Cantonment in Karachi in relation to alleged accusations of financial misconduct. On 25 January 2000, a division of the Sindh High Court reportedly allowed the National Accountability Bureau until 3 February 2000 to ascertain the charges against him. On 19 February a habeas corpus petition was filed on his behalf. On 21 February 2000, Dr. Farooq Sattar was reportedly transferred via Islamabad to Attock Fort, where he is believed to be held in solitary and incommunicado detention in a cell measuring 7 square feet.