E/CN.4/1997/7 page 46 medically examined at Sakarya Prison, where they had very recently arrived after a period of custody in the Anti-Terror Department at Istanbul Police Headquarters, must rank among the most flagrant examples of torture 4 encountered by CPT delegations in Turkey”. He shares the CPT's concern that even the bill that would provide for access to a laywer after four days 5 permits a delay that is “not acceptable”. 200. In the light of the Government’s consistent reliance on reports from officially appointed doctors to the effect that there has been no torture or ill-treatment (a conclusion not, to the Special Rapporteur’s knowledge, normally within medical competence even in respect of physical torture or ill-treatment), he endorses the following statement of the CPT: “the forensic doctor must enjoy formal and de facto independence, have been provided with specialized training and been allocated a mandate which is sufficiently broad in scope. If these conditions are not met - as is frequently the case - the present system can have the perverse effect of rendering it all the more difficult to combat torture and ill-treatment” (para. 6). The Government has still not agreed to extend an invitation to the Special Rapporteur to visit the country. Uganda 201. The Special Rapporteur made an urgent appeal on behalf of one person. United Arab Emirates 202. The Special Rapporteur made an urgent appeal on behalf of one person. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 203. The Special Rapporteur transmitted five individual cases, to which the Government provided replies. United Republic of Tanzania 204. By letter dated 10 June 1996 the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received reports regarding instances of torture and other ill-treatment alleged to have occurred in Zanzibar following the general election in October 1995. Activists from the opposition Civic Unit Front (CUF) were said to have been particularly targeted by the police, the security services and members of the youth wing of the ruling party (CCM). 205. The Special Rapporteur transmitted 12 individual cases, to which the Government provided replies. Uzbekistan 206. The Special Rapporteur transmitted three individual cases. He also made an urgent appeal in conjunction with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on behalf of four persons.