E/CN.4/1993/26 page 101 allowed to visit him but has been permitted to leave clothes at the police station. He is reported to have been taken once to his office under police guard for a business meeting with the representative of a foreign firm for which he used to work. The representative is quoted as saying that Mr. Hadj Belgacem looked as though he had been subjected to physical mistreatment and looked unkempt and exhausted. (17 March 1992). 451. On 29 September 1992 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Ezzedine Hadj Belgacem had been questioned by the Gabès police on 19 March 1992, not 7 February, regarding the unlawful acts he was believed to have committed. When the permitted period of police custody expired, he was placed at the disposal of the public prosecutor at the Gabès court of first instance. The prosecutor accused him of assisting and concealing wanted persons and holding meetings with a view to undertaking acts to undermine the internal security of the State. The examining magistrate, to whom M. Hadj Belgacem had admitted his guilt, made an order for his detention. He had not been subjected to maltreatment during his detention. He was sentenced by the Gabès court of first instance to 2 years 9 months imprisonment on 29 April 1992. The Gab��s appeal court reduced the sentence to 21 months on 31 August 1992. 452. Noureddine Mabrouk is reported to have been arrested on 3 February 1992 at the Bizerta high school where he teaches. He was taken to the Bouchoucha police station. Later he was seen in the Ministry of the Interior, handcuffed and showing signs of maltreatment. (17 March 1992) 453. On 29 September 1992 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Noureddine Mabrouk had been arrested by the police on 17 March 1992, not 3 February, on suspicion of serious breaches of the law. He was brought in good time before the examining magistrate of the Tunis court of first instance. He was charged with membership in an association which advocates and practises violence and an order was made out for his detention awaiting trial. He suffered no ill-treatment during detention and on 16 April 1992 the Tunis court of first instance sentenced him to one year and 16 days' imprisonment and placed him under administrative supervision for two years. The Tunis appeal court confirmed the sentence on 24 August 1992. 454. Zouhair Mhiri, professor of European literature at Ain al-Idrahim and brother of Khaled Mhiri, suspected of membership in al-Nahda, an unauthorized Islamic organization, was arrested by police on 15 April 1992 and taken to the Ministry of the Interior where he was held incommunicado. Two days earlier the family house was searched and Zouhair Mhiri's father was taken to the police station for questioning. (7 May 1992) 455. On 21 September 1992 the Government stated that Zouhair Mhiri had been arrested by the Sousse police on 16 May 1992. He had not been arrested on 15 April or taken to the Ministry of the Interior in Tunis and held incommunicado. Following his arrest at Sousse, his case went to the Sousse public prosecutor and he was charged by the examining magistrate with membership in an unauthorized association which advocated and practised violence. He was heard by the examining magistrate on 21 May in the presence of his lawyer and an order for his committal was made the same day. The