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that followed his arrest. The torture included electric shocks to sensitive
parts of the body, water up the nasal passages until he nearly suffocated and
blows on all parts of the body;
(c) Octavio Rendon Perez, member of the National Democratic People's
Front, was arrested by the Judicial Police on 27 April 1990. After his
arrest, he was reportedly stripped and beaten and kicked by six policemen on
all parts of his body, including the testicles and ears.
Morocco
Letters
115. On 27 November 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the
Government of Morocco transmitting information that the following persons
reportedly died in 1989 after having been tortured: Abdeljalil Yakouti died
on 4 February 1989 in the Ouarzazate police station; according to the sources
an autopsy carried out in Marrakech disproved the theory that his death was
the result of suicide; Bouaza Kharraz, arrested in May 1989 in Abijaad by
members of the Auxiliary Forces; he was taken home several hours later, dead,
with injuries and traces of torture; Abdeslam Ouahabi, a 28-year-old sailor
who died on 10 August 1989 in the Larache police station after several days of
detention during which he was allegedly subjected to torture; he was buried
without an autopsy; Abderrahim Ben Khalifa, aged 23, died on 25 August 1989
during his transfer to the hospital, after having been brutally tortured;
Larbi Charrat, a craftsman aged over 60, was arrested with other citizens
following their demonstration against the demolition of dwellings in their
village; he was reportedly beaten and tortured by security agents and died as
a result of the torture on 27 August 1989 in the premises of the Sidi Slimane
gendarme station. The Special Rapporteur's attention was also drawn to the
case of Riahi Alayachi, a teacher in the Beni Slimane region who was allegedly
tortured on 8 April 1989 when the local boss of Sidi Moussa and two auxiliary
forces officers arrested him and took him to the local boss's office on
charges of having sent letters to the press. He reportedly filed a complaint,
but it is not known whether an inquiry was instituted and what the results
were. The Special Rapporteur's attention was also drawn to the extremely
harsh conditions of detention in the Tazmamart Military Prison, Rich region,
and in the Kenitra Central Prison. Complaints have been made about unhygienic
conditions, the lack of medical and paramedical care, the smallness of the
cells, the lack of food and water, ill-treatment by the guards and the harsh
climate.
Myanmar
Urgent appeals and Government replies
116. On 16 February 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the
Government of Myanmar concerning U Tin Soe, a parliamentary candidate for the
National League for Democracy (NLD) Party, and two other NLD candidates, who
were arrested in Yangon on 8 February 1990, and U Htwe Myint, a candidate for
the Democracy Party, who was arrested in the same week. U Tin Soe had
allegedly been tortured when he was detained in 1989. He was later released.
It was alleged that any person arrested on political grounds by government
security forces risked being tortured or ill-treated.
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