E/CN.4/1993/26 page 62 have also been interrogated under torture and forced to sign letters of resignation. Those responsible are said to be military officials and members of the paramilitary police force "Brimob" (Mobile Brigade). Forms of torture and ill-treatment include: electrocution; slashing with razor blades and knives, including inside the mouth; beating on the head, shins and torso with fists, batons, iron bars, bottles, rocks and lengths of electric cable; sexual molestation and rape; kicking with heavy military boots; burning with lighted cigarettes; threats and deliberate wounding with firearms; immersion for long periods in fetid water, isolation and sleep deprivation. 272. The following individual cases were reported: (a) Mohamad Jafar, arrested in August 1990 in Aceh on suspicion of helping members of the Aceh Merdeka movement. According to witnesses he was beaten with wooden sticks and an electric cable before being taken to an unknown destination; (b) Dr. Mahdi Yusuf, Dr. Amiruddin, Dr. Abdullah Ibrahim, Dr. Idris Ishaq and Dr. Ibrahim Hasar were severely tortured at the beginning of 1991 while held at the Banda Aceh prison. As a result two of them were paralysed; (c) Syaifulah was detained between September 1990 and February 1991 at Brimob headquarters in Medan. Witnesses reported that he had been kicked and beaten, stripped naked and had his genitals squeezed with metal pliers; (d) questioned squat with sitting on Abbas was reportedly beaten with a thick electric cable while being at Brimob headquarters in Medan in mid-1991. He was also forced to a length of wood placed behind his knees and a second prisoner his shoulders, as a result of which one of his legs broke; (e) Dr. Adnan Beuransyah, a journalist with the paper Serambi Indonesia, was arrested in August 1990 on the accusation of having links with Aceh Merdeka. During his interrogation by regional military officials he was given electric shocks on his feet, genitals and ears; his hair and nose were burned with cigarette butts and he was severely beaten and kicked; (f) Marwan was arrested on 3 October 1990 in Aceh by members of the military and subjected to torture, as a result of which his nose was broken; (g) Wardoyo, Latif and Samsudin, workers at the Evershinetex factory in Bogor, were severely tortured at military barracks (Korem 061) on 26 June 1991. They were allegedly accused of having taken part in a demonstration and forced to sign letters of resignation. 273. With respect to cases (a)-(d) above, the Government reported that these persons were never detained nor were they tortured. With respect to cases (e) and (f) the Government informed that these persons were involved in the activities of the Security Disturbance Movement (GPK). After being brought to trial, they were sentenced respectively to nine and six years in Lhok Nga prison (Banda Aceh). During their detention there was no indication of