E/CN.4/1993/26 page 71 Kuwait Information transmitted to the Government 304. On 2 March 1992 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Kuwait concerning Iman Thendon Abdul-Latif, a laboratory research assistant at the College of Medicine, University of Kuwait, who was arrested on 12 June 1992. According to the information received, Miss AbdulLatif suffered from a kidney affliction and was arrested only a few days after she had undergone an appendix operation. In spite of her poor health she was reportedly not being provided with the necessary medical care and her family was not allowed to visit her. Lesotho Information transmitted to the Government and replies received thereon 305. By letter dated 21 August 1992 the Special Rapporteur communicated to the Government of Lesotho that he had received information on the following cases of torture, to some of which the Government replied on 2 November 1992: (a) Mofokeng Makakole was arrested on 27 September 1991 by South African police at Welkom in the Orange Free State and transferred into the custody of the Royal Lesotho Mounted Police. He died the day after, apparently as a result of torture. The post-mortem examination requested by the family concluded that he had been beaten with objects such as sticks or sjamboks (hide whips) and that he had probably also been subjected to blows from a blunt object or kicked. The likely cause of death was given as "pressure to the neck and asphyxia"; (b) John Ralengana and Khabele Khaebana, prisoners at Maseru prison, were severely beaten with sticks and sjamboks on 31 August 1991. John Ralengana also suffered birdshot wounds (birdshot consists of a large quantity of small lead pellets fired from a shotgun). Afterwards they were stripped naked and placed in solitary confinement in cells deliberately flooded with water; (c) Dr. Michael Sefali was held in detention between 14 and 22 March 1990. He was subjected to interrogation for whole nights during which he was stripped naked, with his hands cuffed behind his back, covered with blankets from the head downwards and made to stand with bare feet on a cement floor covered with crushed stones; (d) Captain Samuel Mokete Tumo, an officer in the Royal Lesotho Defence Force, was arrested on 20 February 1990 and kept in solitary confinement at Maseru maximum prison until 7 March 1990. In the course of interrogation he was stripped naked, covered with blankets, handcuffed and told to kneel on a cement floor covered with crushed stones; (e) Lakia Pholo, an official of the Lesotho Bank, was arrested in July 1989. On arrival at police headquarters a blanket was thrown over his head and fastened with a rope. A motor vehicle tyre was thrown around his neck. He was handcuffed and stripped of his trousers and underpants. When he