E/CN.4/1993/26 page 40 163. The Special Rapporteur also received information on the case of Mr. Nicolas Masoko Elonga, a member of the Social Democratic Coalition, who was detained by police from 16 to 24 December 1991. He was tied up and flogged with a cudgel until he fainted. 164. The Special Rapporteur also addressed urgent appeals to the Government on behalf of the following who were, according to his informants, in danger of torture or maltreatment. The dates of the appeals are given in brackets at the end of the summaries of the various cases. 165. Plácido Mikó Abogo, founded of the Convergence for Social Democracy Party, and Pedro Motu Mamiaga were arrested at Malabo, the former on 9 and the latter on 23 February 1992 and taken to the barracks used by Moroccan soldiers. According to eye witnesses, Plácido Mikó Abogo was brutally beaten by eight policemen before he was removed and suffered serious injury. Pedro Motu Mamiaga was arrested only a few days after he had been released under a general amnesty law. (27 February 1992). 166. Pilar Mañana was arrested by security police during the afternoon of 10 June 1992 when she was in the bar of her property in Malabo. The report states that she was arrested for possession of a copy of the opposition publication "Convergencia para la democracia social". Another factor may have been her Kinsman, Jose Nuumba Mañana's membership of the opposition. He was himself arrested in May 1992 and subsequently released. (30 June 1992). Egypt Information transmitted to the Government and replies received thereon 167. By letter dated 4 September 1992 the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government of Egypt a summary of the main allegations received with regard to the practice of torture in the country, as well as a number of individual cases. In addition to this, the Special Rapporteur made two urgent appeals on behalf of persons who, according to the information received, were at risk of being tortured. (a) Information transmitted to the Government with regard to the practice of torture in general 168. The Special Rapporteur was informed that torture had become routine police procedure carried out by ordinary police officers in police stations as well as by officers of the State Security Intelligence (SSI) at its diverse headquarters in Cairo and the provinces and even in some prisons such as the Tora. Torture is administered with the aim of extracting confessions or to punish political opponents and suspects. 169. Torture was reportedly restored in Egypt with the imposition of the state of emergency in the wake of the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and in conjunction with the phenomenon of violence committed by some political Islamist groups. Persons suspected of belonging to these groups have accounted for the bulk of torture victims during the past decade.