E/CN.4/1993/26 page 100 445. Mansouri Toumi was arrested on 3 October 1991. He was reportedly tortured in al-Aouina by being suspended by the arms from an iron bar two metres above the ground. 446. Fatima Guitouni was arrested in May 1991 and held at Nabeul police station. During her detention she was beaten while sitting on the floor with her foot suspended from a metal wire between two chairs. 447. The Government states that the six persons listed are not among those found to have been the victims of brutality and ill-treatment. 448. The Special Rapporteur was informed that the following died under torture after arrest: (a) Rachid Chammakhi, a supporter of the illegal Hizb al-Nahda Islamic movement was arresteed on 24 October 1991 and taken to Slimane police station where he was severely beaten. Some days later he was taken to hospital and died there. According to witnesss he had multiple bruises and wounds. The Government states that the public prosecutor of Grombalia was instructed to consider reopening the judicial inquiry into allegations that the death was caused directly or indirectly by maltreatment. The prosecutor examined the allegations and did not find material that would justify reopening the inquiry in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure, article 121. The inquiry has been provisionally shelved; (b) 24 January the "roast Noureddine incorrect. Noureddine Masi, a member of Hizb al-Nahda, was arrested on 1992 and taken to Nabeul police station where he was tortured by chicken" method. The Government states that the allegation that Msedi (called Masi in the Special Rapporteur's letter) is dead is He is alive; (c) Abdelwahed Abdelli, a fourth-year student at the Ecole normale supérieure, died in Sousse on or about 30 June 1991. According to fellow detainees in Sousse police station, he was shot in the leg and arrested two days before he died. He was reportedly left without medical attention and tortured. Apparently no autopsy report was given to the family; (d) Tarek Azitouni, a university student at the College of Letters and Science at Tunis. It was reported that he had died on 9 February 1991 in the city of Mareth after his head was smashed by the police; (e) Amer Degachi of Wardya, a third-year theology student at Tunis University is reported to have been arrested in June 1991 and to have died under torture 11 July 1991 at the Ministry of the Interior. The Government states the three persons listed are not among those found to have been the victims of brutality and ill-treatment. 449. The Special Rapporteur also made urgent appeals on behalf of the following who were feared to be in danger of torture. The date of each appeal is given in brackets at the end of the summary. 450. Ezzeddine Hadj Belgacem is reported to have been in police custody at Gabès since 7 February 1992 when he was arrested. His family has not been