E/CN.4/1994/31 page 107 506. With respect to this case the Government replied on 3 May 1993 that Sayed Ahmed Abdel Rahman Elmahdi had been summoned by the competent security authorities for questioning. After completing the inquiry, he had been immediately released on the same day. He was not arrested and his residence was not stormed by members of the security forces. His son was neither arrested nor summoned for questioning by the security authorities. 507. Siddig Mohamed Eltom, a student at Ahlia University, was arrested on 9 April 1993 following a peaceful demonstration in Omdurman. According to the reports, other people arrested in connection with the same incidents were released the following day, after having been severely beaten. Siddig Mohamed Eltom, however, was reported to be still in custody in a detention centre situated behind the City Bank. (7 May 1993) 508. Mohamed al Mahdi, Imam of the Wad Nubawi mosque in Omdurman; Abdel Mahmud Abbo, Imam of the Guba mosque in Omdurman; Abdullah Ishaq, director of religious guidance in the Ansar Affairs office. These three senior members of the Ansar Islamic sect were reportedly arrested on 29 April 1993. Abdel Rahman Yunis, resident representative of the Ansar Imam, was arrested in Ad-Damazin, a provincial town some 300 miles south-east of Khartoum. Al Fadl Omar was also reportedly arrested in Ad-Damazin, along with seven other men. Al-Hadi Adam, resident representative of the Ansar Imam in Nyala, was reportedly arrested in that town. Musa Abdallah al-Bashir was reported to have been arrested in Ed-Dueim, a town some 140 miles south of Khartoum. Al-Zahawi Ibrahim and Mustafa Abd al-Gadir Abd al-Latif were reportedly arrested in Wad Medani. 509. These arrests, alleged to have taken place in April 1993, were believed to be related to the circulation of a speech which called for the return of multi-party democracy originally made by Sadiq al-Mahdi in Omdurman in late March following prayers to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr. Abdul Rasoul al-Nur Ismael, who was originally arrested with Sadiq al-Mahdi on 5 April 1993 and later released, was reported to have been rearrested together with Mirghani Abdel Rahman Suleiman and Fadlalla Burma Nasir, both senior members of the Umma Party, in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the Government. (14 May 1993) 510. On 18 August 1993 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Alzahawi Ibrahim had been arrested on 3 May and faced criminal charges; Abdul Rasoul Al Nur Ismael on 2 July and faced the same charges; and Mirghani Abdelrahman Salman on 29 April, also on criminal charges. None of the other persons mentioned in the appeal had been arrested. 511. Dr Ibrahim al-Amin, ex-cabinet member, arrested around 11 April 1993 allegedly in Khartoum; Mohammed Abdel-Rahim, arrested in El-Obeid; Mohammed Yussuf Hassan, arrested in Wad Medani; Ibrahim Ali Abdelgadir Fageer; al-Sadiq Ibrahim; Abdel Bagi Taj al-Din, Omda of the Shanabla tribe; Osman Idris Habani, teacher; Berier Mohamed al-Tom, teacher; Hussein Ahmad Fadl, merchant: these persons were reportedly arrested in Ad-Dueim, a town some 140 miles south of Khartoum in April or May 1993.