E/CN.4/1997/7 page 48 appeals, most in conjunction with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Zaire, involving 13 individuals or groups. He received no replies from the Government. Observations 214. In the light of the information he has received, the Special Rapporteur considers that the conclusion of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Zaire in his 1996 report to the Commission remains applicable: “torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and the rape of women prisoners ... have not ceased” (E/CN.4/1996/66, para. 121). Zambia 215. The Special Rapporteur made an urgent appeal on behalf of two persons, to which the Government provided a reply. Other communications: information transmitted to the Palestinian Authority 216. The Special Rapporteur made 5 urgent appeals on behalf of 11 persons. Concluding remarks 217. The Special Rapporteur again in his report to the Commission at para. 926) and reminds Governments communications could be focused to report to the fifty-second session paras. 198-201). reiterates the recommendations summarized its fifty-first session (E/CN.4/1995/34, of how some of their responses to his facilitate his work, as indicated in his of the Commission (E/CN.4/1996/35, Notes 1.Approved by Economic and Social Council resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2078 (LXII) of 13 May 1977. 2.General Comments 7 (16) and 20 (44). See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/37/40) and (A/47/40). Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 3.Council of Europe, press release 707 (96), 6 December 1996. 4.Ibid. 5.Ibid.