E/CN.4/1994/31 page 116 Davud Kurt, was also allegedly tortured; his hand and a number of ribs were broken. He reportedly stated that his brother had been subjected to torture, by means of a truncheon that was inserted into his anus. 555. Ramazan Sat was arrested on 24 March 1992 in Batman and interrogated for 12 days at Batman police headquarters on suspicion of harbouring members of PKK. He was reportedly subjected to torture by being beaten, stripped of his clothes, his arms tied to an iron pole and hoisted into the air; his body was reportedly soaked with water and electric shocks applied to his toes and penis, and he was hung by his wrists tied behind his back. 556. Saadik Cilik, Nuray Erdem, Mehmet Karabulut, Nurdan Odabas, Serdar Akat, Attila Sabanci, Fatma Ciçek (female), Latif Tiftikçi, Nuri Eryüksel, Etem Elma, Siral Demiral and Ayçe Erdem, artists working at the Ortaköy cultural centre in Istanbul, were arrested, apparently without reason being given, on 24 August 1992 at 9 p.m. in Eregli, near Zongdulak, and remained incommunicado at the anti-terror branch of the political police in Zongdulak until 2 September 1992. During that time they were reportedly subjected to several methods of torture, including hanging by the wrists or arms and electric shocks. Fatma Ciçek was reportedly subjected to falaka. 557. Fatma Gülten Sesen (female, owner of Mücadele newspaper and President of the Istanbul Branch of Prisoners’ Families Solidarity Association (TAYAD)), Sultan Celik (female), Ufuk Demirkaya, Solmaz Tartar (president of the Istanbul Özgür-Der), Gülay Tan, Yasa Güzel (secretary-general of Malatya Özgür-Der) and Ayten Celik were arrested on 24 August 1992 between 4.30 and 5 a.m. in Karatas near Adana, apparently without reason being given, and taken to the Adana police station. They were alleged relatives of people working with Özgür-Der (Association of Rights and Freedom) or TAYAD. Before they were released on 30 August 1992 by the Adana’s Prosecutor’s Office, they were reportedly subjected to hanging by the wrists or arms, electric shocks, falaka and to being made to lay down on blocks of ice. 558. Ihsan Kurt was arrested on 11 October 1992 while taking photographs on behalf of his newspaper, Özgür Gündem, in Adana at the funeral of a killed PKK guerilla. He was reportedly held incommunicado from 11 to 19 October 1992 in Adana police headquarters, during which time he was subjected to several methods of torture, including being beaten with truncheons, sticks or the butts of guns, kicked and punched. 559. In the course of an operation carried out by the security forces on 20 February 1993 in the village of Ormaniçi, near Güçlükonak, in the province of Sirnak, most of the male villagers were tied together, blindfolded and marched into the town of Güçlükonak several kilometres away, where they were kept on a construction site near the gendarmerie headquarters for 12 days. They were reportedly stripped naked for interrogation in temperatures frequently well below zero and subjected to various forms of torture. It was alleged that they were hosed with cold water, raped with truncheons and bottles, in some cases toenails and fingernails were pulled out with pliers and excrement was mixed with their food. Water was allegedly poured on the concrete floor as a result of which the villagers’ bare feet, already injured by falaka, were frozen to the floor where they stood and their sides also froze when they lay down to sleep. Many of them suffered from