E/CN.4/1994/31 page 74 (d) Husniyeh Abdel Qader, from the Balata refugee camp, was arrested on 9 April 1992. She was detained at the Kishon detention centre, where she was held in solitary confinement with her hands cuffed behind her back and her head in a dirty bag during the first four days of her detention. She was released on 14 September 1992. (e) Hassan Badr ’Abdallah Zubeidi, from ’Anabta, Tulkarem district, was arrested on 25 September 1992 and during 33 days detained at Tulkarm and Far’a prisons. Since his release, Mr. Zubeidi, who had been in perfect health before his arrest, was said to suffer from "acute catatonia", a mental disorder associated with a near total lack of response or association with the outside world. (f) Youssef Farahat, from the Nusseirat refugee camp, was arrested on 24 January 1992 and taken to the Gaza central prison. He was reportedly tortured, in particular by being placed in a cell called "the refrigerator" (a small and totally dark cell into which cold air is pumped through a single opening in the ceiling) for 10 to 15 hours a day. (g) Ghazi Abdul Rahim Omar, a resident of the village of Algason, was arrested on 25 September 1992 and taken to the Tulkarm detention centre. On 3 November, his family was informed that Ghazi Omar was hospitalized at Ha’emek hospital in a serious condition because of a kidney problem, which seemed to have been caused by severe beatings. (h) Nader Raji Qumsieh was arrested between 3 and 4 May 1993 at his home in Beit Sahur, in the West Bank, and taken to a military detention centre in Bethlehem. He remained in solitary confinement until 6 May, when he was reportedly moved to the Dhahiriyyah detention centre for interrogation. He sustained an injury to his scrotum while under interrogation, as was evident from his medical records. One medical report claimed that Nader Qumsieh said he had fallen downstairs, whereas he had repeatedly stated that he had been injured in Dhahiriyyah as a result of torture. 354. By the same letter the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1992 regarding which no reply had been received. Urgent appeals 355. The Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government on 16 July 1993 on behalf of Muhammad Ya’qub ’Abd al-Wader al-Nubani, a Palestinian from the village of Mazari’ al-Nubani near Ramallah, who was reportedly arrested by Israeli forces in the town of Bir Zeit on 22 April 1993 and taken to the Ramallah prison. On 9 June 1993, he was said to have stated in an affidavit that he had been kept hooded for long periods, tied by the hands and feet and kept in a painful position on a low chair, and deprived of sleep. Fears were expressed that he might continue to be subjected to this kind of treatment.