E/CN.4/1993/26 page 21 ill-treatment. On 1 June 1992 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Senfo Tonkam had been tried in a court of first instance and found guilty on all counts. 67. Jean-Michel Nintcheu, a publisher and chairman of the opposition Patriotic Rally and a member of Cap Liberte, the Committee for Popular Action for Freedom and Democracy, and Emmanuel Wato, a computer specialist and regional coordinator of Cap Liberte in Douala, were reported to have been arrested without warrant on 3 January 1992 and taken to the police facilities at Bonanjo, Douala. There they are reported to have been severely beaten. As a result of the maltreatment, Jean-Michel Nintcheu was reported to be incapable of walking and in precarious health. Neither prisoner had been allowed to see a doctor or lawyer (29 January 1992). 68. Dr. Zama Kimbi Ndefru, leader of the Cameroon Anglophone Movement (CAM), Stephen Ndi, leader of the CAM branch at Bamenda, Blaise Berinyuy, secretary of the branch and Gilbert Azeh, a student, were members of a group of demonstrators who were arrested during a peaceful demonstration at Bamenda on 11 February 1992 and taken to the gendarmerie. There witnesses saw some of the detainees beaten with clubs and rifle butts. Later the detainees were kept in solitary confinement (21 February 1992). 69. Hameni Bieuleu was beaten and arrested at N'Kongsamba on 5 November 1992 and later taken to Yaoundé where he was held in solitary confinement at the gendarmerie headquarters. According to information received, he has not received medical care although he is diabetic and in poor health (2 December 1992). 70. After the declaration of a state of emergency in the north-west province on 27 October 1992, mass arrests of members of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) took place at Bamenda. Many of those arrested were beaten. Some 200 people, including Ngalla Nfor, an SDF member, Peter Ngufor, a businessman, Francis Sama, a lawyer, Ophelia R. Sendze, a lawyer, and Nyo Wakai, a former president of the Supreme Court, are reported to have been held in solitary confinement in the headquarters of the mixed mobile brigade, the security police and the gendarmerie (11 December 1992). Central African Republic Information transmitted to the Government 71. On 27 October 1992 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government summarizing the information received concerning the death in detention of Dr. Jean-Claude Konjugo, a 50-year-old optometrist and a member of the Alliance for Progress. He had been arrested by the police at Bangui on 1 August 1992 during a demonstration organized by the trade unions and opposition political parties. He was taken to the gendarmerie post and hit so hard that he was unable to stand up. He was taken to hospital and died there a few hours later.