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(e) Tariq al Aswani, Ali Abdulmuneim and Kamal Assa'id held on
22 August 1989 in connection with activity in the banned "Jihad" Islamic
group, were reportedly subjected to the "aroussa" treatment;
(f) Dr. Ahmed Abdel Salim, Husni Nagdi and another approximately
500 persons arrested in Asyut in December 1989 following violent clashes
between the security forces and supporters of the Islamic groups at Asyut
University. The detainees were reported to be held incommunicado by the SSIP
at its detention centre in Asyut. The two above-mentioned detainees had
allegedly been severely beaten on their faces and others had been beaten and
tortured;
(g) Abdel Nasser Abdel Alim Durra and Magdi Muhammad Salem had
reportedly been forcibly repatriated to Egypt from Saudi Arabia in
November 1989 and were detained under emergency legislation in Tora
Reception prison. They were allegedly tortured by SSIP officers at the
SSIP headquarters at Lazughli;
(h) Ahmed Abdul Nabi Muhammad Antar, Hisham Muhammad Muhammad Eisa,
Muhammad Said Abdul Meguid, Ali Ahmad Ali al-Naggar were arrested by SSIP at
Alexandria on 28 November 1989. During interrogation and upon transferral to
Tora Reception prison on 12 December 1989 they were allegedly tortured,
including being kept naked, denied food and drink, as well as medical
treatment, and subjected to beatings, abuse and electric shocks for four days;
(i) It was further reported that on 29 August 1989, 80 children between
the ages of 6 and 10 years old, in addition to 13 supervisors, attending a
recreational camp in Alexandria were arrested by a large security force of
soldiers and officers with machine-guns. The children and supervisors were
forced to spend the first night on the ground of a custody room without any
amenities in Montazah Police Station in Alexandria. According to children's
testimonies, specifically Ahmed Emad Mohamed Abdel Wahab (age 9) and
Hani Mohamed Ali Beshir (age 10), a number of them were subjected to verbal
abuse, exposed to crowded conditions without facilities, deprived of blankets,
and beaten or kicked.
El Salvador
Urgent messages
64. On 14 September 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to
the Government of El Salvador concerning Miguel Angel Barillas Osegueda, a
25-year-old university student who was arrested on 11 August 1990 by soldiers
from the Atlacatl Battalion. On 13 August, Mr. Barillas was allegedly
transferred to the National Guard in Santa Tecla, where he was reported to
have been brutally tortured. He was kept at the Municipal Police Station
until 27 August, when he was taken to the First Criminal Court in
San Salvador. Even though he denied the charges against him and described
the harassment and treatment to which he was subjected, he was remanded to
"La Esperanza" prison in San Luis Mariona, where he is still being held.
According to the complainants, from the time of his arrest until now, he has
not received medical care or any official medical examination of his physical
condition, even though he continues to suffer from the consequences of the
ill-treatment to which he was allegedly subjected.
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