E/CN.4/2001/66 page 89 Urgent appeals and replies received 419. On 6 June 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Mohammad Shaaban Mohammad Hassanein, an Egyptian national resident in Denmark, who was reportedly arrested in Pakistan in mid-March on suspicion of links to Islamist armed groups and was returned to Egypt on 25 or 26 May 2000. Furthermore, Ayman Kamal al-Hin, who was reportedly returned to Egypt at the beginning of May after his detention in Lebanon since January 2000. In 1993, an Egyptian military court had reportedly sentenced him in absentia to three years’ imprisonment on charges of involvement in an armed Islamist group. Both were believed to be held in incommunicado detention in the State Security Investigation (SSI) Department in Lazoghly Square in Cairo. 420. By letter dated 23 August 2000, the Government requested further information on the above-mentioned persons in order to prepare a complete reply about their situation. Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 421. By letters dated 8 March and 31 October 2000, the Government responded to all pending individual cases that had been transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in previous years. 422. Concerning Ashrad Uwais Sulayman (E/CN.4/1998/38/Add.1, para. 91), the Government stated that he was a terrorist from Bani Sueif Governorate who had previously been charged in 1994. A ministerial order was issued for his arrest under the Act concerning the state of emergency in order to prevent him engaging in terrorist activities. There is no evidence to substantiate his allegations of torture. 423. Concerning Mohamed Mohammed Ibraheem Toaima (real name: Ahmad Mohammed Ibraheem Mohammed), (ibid., para. 92), the Government stated that he is a terrorist from Al-Qalyoubiya Governorate. A ministerial order was issued for his arrest under the Act concerning the state of emergency in order to prevent him engaging in terrorist activities. There is no evidence to substantiate his allegations of torture. 424. Concerning Moshen Said Abou-Zeid, (ibid., para. 97), the Government indicated that an investigation had been carried out by the Department of Public Prosecution. On 14 April 1996, a captain found responsible for the assault was sentenced to a penalty of deduction from his salary of the equivalent of five days’ pay. 425. Concerning Amal Faroug Mohammad al-Maas and her husband, Ahmad Mohammad Ahmad al-Sayyid (E/CN.4/1999/61, para. 193), the Government indicated that this latter is a member of the terrorist organization Al-Gama’s Al-Islamia and received a life sentence with hard labour in the case of the attempted assassination of the Minister of Information. Following her husband’s arrest, she was summoned for questioning. On 2 May 1994, she submitted a complaint through her lawyer to the Department of Public Prosecutions for beatings, assault and unlawful detention. An investigation was carried out. Nothing was found to substantiate the complaint.