E/CN.4/1991/17 page 36 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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