E/CN.4/1994/31 page 47 215. Ashraf Aboul-Hassan Ibrahim and Saber Hamza Moubarak, were arrested by the SSI in Alexandria on 31 July 1992. For 17 days they were held at the SSI offices in Alexandria and the Al-Labban police station, where they were reportedly tortured. Subsequently, they were transferred to the CSF Qena camp where they were reportedly blindfolded, handcuffed, stripped naked, hung by the hands with pressure on the shoulders or weights to the feet, beaten with electric wires and sticks, doused with icy water and given electric shocks. 216. Mohamed Elwi Ali, arrested on 13 March 1992, Hassan Mekkawi Hussein, arrested on 10 June 1992 and Atteya Ahmed Mohamed, arrested on 17 July 1992, were allegedly tortured at the CSF camp in Fayyoum with methods including beatings with sticks, the stubbing of burning cigarettes on their bodies and the application of electric shocks to sensitive parts of the body. 217. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted to the Government the cases of torture described in the following paragraphs. 218. Al-Sharif Hassan Ahmed, Ahmed Ibrahim ’Abd al-Galil, Qassim Ibrahim Qassim Qettish, ’Ala’ al-Din Isma’il ’Abbas Ramadhan and Mohammad Sa’id Mohammad ’Abdu, were arrested in August 1992 in Alexandria under accusation of membership of an underground terrorist organization. One of them, Al-Sharif Hassan Ahmed, was sentenced to death and the others were given sentences ranging from a one-year prison term to life imprisonment. They were reportedly tortured following their arrest, and official forensic medical doctors who examined them found physical scars consistent with the torture they had alleged. Reported methods of torture included electric shocks on different parts of the body and beatings. 219. Mahmoud Guhayni al-Sa’dawi was reportedly arrested on 29 February 1992 and held in Istiqbal Tora prison until 21 May 1992, when he was transferred to the headquarters of the State Security Intelligence in Lazoghly Square. There he was reportedly severely tortured for six days and he subsequently died in the same building. An official inquiry by the Procuracy established that his death was due to circulatory and respiratory depression, but apparently failed to shed light on the circumstances surrounding the death. 220. ’Amer ’Abd al-Mun’im, a journalist working for the opposition al-Sha’b newspaper, was arrested in July 1992 under accusation of possessing anti-government leaflets and held for one month at the SSI headquarters in Lazoghly Square. According to the reports, he was beaten and subjected to electric shocks on different parts of his body, in particular his left hand. 221. Mohammed Ali Mohammed Ali was arrested on 24 January 1993 in Cairo on suspicion of car theft and taken to the Agonza police station. While in detention he was reportedly hung over a door and beaten on the soles of the feet. Following this the chief of investigation reportedly injected him with a mixture of water and faeces which eventually caused gangrene in his leg. As a result, he had to undergo three operations at the Qasr Al Alny hospital.