E/CN.4/1991/17 page 24 Urgent appeals and Government replies 75. On 28 December 1989, the Government of Haiti sent the Special Rapporteur the following information in reply to his urgent appeal of 20 November 1989 (E/CN.4/1990/17, para. 77): "According to the information available to the Haitian Ministry of Justice, these detainees, Mr. Jean Auguste Mesyeux, Mr. Evans Paul and Mr. Marineau Etienne, were brought before their natural judges on 3 November 1989, in accordance with the law, in order to answer the charges brought against them. They were also taken to the Military Hospital on 17 November 1989, in order to receive the care they needed". 76. On 1 February 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Haitian Government transmitting information that Mr. Enock Joseph, Mayor of the Commune of Chardoniere, and Mr. Camelo Brutus, as well as a large number of other persons, were recently arrested and reportedly being subjected to torture. Letters 77. On 10 August 1990, the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Haitian Government transmitting information that Mr. Tony Verriot, a journalist with Radio Haiti Inter, was allegedly arrested by Haitian Army soldiers in Port—de-Paix on 15 May 1990 while he was conducting an investigation in the court in that town. According to the source, Judge Thulien Vincent, who was the subject of the journalist's investigation, had called soldiers in to have Mr. Verriot removed from the court. During his arrest, Mr. Verriot was allegedly beaten by the soldiers inside the court-house and on the way to the army command post in the town. While he was being detained at the post, he was reportedly tortured by some 30 soldiers. He was released the following day and had to be given emergency medical treatment. According to the same source, Mr. Dauphin Eugene, a journalist with Radio Etincelle in Port-de-Paix, was reportedly arrested on 19 May 1990, also at the request of Judge Vincent. Mr. Eugene was allegedly held at the army command post, where he was subjected to ill-treatment. India Letters 78. On 6 June 1990 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of India transmitting information alleging that 19 members of the Pardhi community, a tribe, were arrested by police on 13 February 1989 at Khopoli, Raigad district, Maharashtra, on suspicion of involvement in gang robbery in Raigad and Thana districts. Their names and ages were reported to the Government. According to sworn statements they made in court they had been tortured by being beaten while held in Khopoli, Panvel, Uran and Vasai police stations, and had been often denied food. On 21 April 1989 the Bombay High Court ordered an immediate judicial inquiry into the torture allegations. The judge who carried out the inquiry concluded that the detainees had received ill-treatment at the hands of the Khopoli police during the period between 13 and 24 February 1989, but the exact identity of the six persons believed to be responsible was not established. On 14 August 1989 the Bombay High Court