E/CN.4/1993/26 page 44 190. Ahmad Thabet Muhammed, aged 17, was arrested in Assyut on 27 November 1991 and kept in detention until 6 February 1992. He was held incommunicado, first at the local SSI office in Assyut and then at a Central Security Forces military camp outside the city. On several occasions he was reportedly doused with water and given electric shocks right away. On one occasion his hands were cuffed in front, his ankles tied and he was suspended between two chairs from a pole placed under his legs; then he was beaten on the soles of the feet. He was also hanged on a door, with his hands cuffed behind his back, while the torturers kept opening and closing the door. 191. Ahmad Fathey Hafez, aged 17, was arrested at his school in Minya on 20 November 1991 and held without charge until 5 February 1992. While in the new SSI building in Minya, he was given electric shocks. 192. Fathiyya Sayyid Muhammed el-Kurd was arrested in February 1992 and taken to the SSI headquarters at Lazoughly where she was insulted, beaten on the face and given electric shocks. 193. Hani Abd el-Magd Haneh Saim was arrested in Tanta, north of Cairo, in October 1991 and taken to the SSI building. He was reportedly beaten, boxed about the face and given electric shocks. 194. Medhat al-Sayyid Ahmad was arrested on 15 November 1991 in Assyut and taken to the Central Security Forces camp. He was reportedly hanged over a door for short periods, doused with hot and cold water and shocked with electricity. He was also hanged from the ceiling by iron chains placed around his wrists. 195. Khalid Sayyid Mahmoud was arrested in Assyut on 16 November 1991 and taken first to the Assyut police station and the SSI building and later to the Central Security Forces camp outside Assyut. He was reportedly doused with hot and cold water and given electric shocks in sensitive parts of the body. 196. Khalid Muhammed Ahmad Omar, a civil engineer from Alexandria, was arrested on 25 October 1991 and taken, after some days, to Lazoughly. There he was beaten and given electric shocks on his nipples and genitals. For five hours he remained tied by his cuffed hands to the metal bars of a window, with his feet just touching the ground. 197. In addition to the above-mentioned, the Special Rapporteur made urgent appeals on behalf of the following persons, with regard to whom fears were expressed that they might be subjected to torture. The date on which they were sent is given in brackets at the end of the summary. 198. Haron Talha, a medical doctor, was arrested in the Governorate of Domyat for having given medical care to two persons who had been shot by a police officer. Despite the fact that the Public Prosecutor ordered his release, he was rearrested under the emergency law. (9 January 1992)