E/CN.4/1995/34 page 58 The charges Mr. Balikci made against the police officers were not confirmed by investigations undertaken by the public prosecutor’s office at Berlin Regional Court and in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure the investigation was discontinued. Guatemala Urgent appeals 303. The Special Rapporteur transmitted three urgent appeals to the Government described in the following paragraphs. The dates on which the appeals were transmitted appear in brackets after the corresponding summaries. 304. Gilberto Moral Caal, a trade unionist, was reportedly arrested around 5 April 1994 by members of the army during a wave of arrests in the town of San Cristobal Verapaz, in the department of Alta Verapaz. He was taken to the area 21 military post. A person who had been detained a few days earlier under similar circumstances, Jorge Alberto Caal, was reported to have been severely tortured (15 April 1994). 305. Arturo Federico Méndez Ortiz and Alfonso Morales Jiménez, members of the Peasants’ Unity Committee (CUC), were arrested on 22 April 1994 by members of the national police in the municipality of Huehuetenango. They were reportedly accused of the murder of a local leader of the Civilian Self-Defence Patrols (PAC), although no firm evidence had been submitted in that regard. Mr. Morales Jiménez was allegedly tied to a post and beaten at the time of his arrest (5 May 1994). 306. Víctor Chavac Puluc, José Rosa Morales Secaida, Luis Estuardo García, Luis Alfredo Véliz Vázquez, Fredy Armando Herrera Castillo, Mario Elmer Sosa, Edin Pedroza Gatica, William René Bor Tacatic and Rigoberto Yoc were allegedly forcibly recruited by the armed forces in the town of San Juan Sacatépequez, department of Guatemala. Following a habeas corpus petition by family members, they appeared before a municipal judge on 18 June 1994 in the Cuartel General General Mariscal Zabala. They were being kept in detention and allegedly immersed for hours in water and made to perform gruelling physical exercises to force them to declare that they had enlisted in the army voluntarily (24 June 1994). Haiti Urgent appeals 307. The Special Rapporteur made six urgent appeals to the de facto Government on behalf of the persons mentioned in the following paragraphs. The dates on which the appeals were transmitted appear in brackets at the end of the corresponding summaries. 308. Members of the security forces and attachés, reportedly looking for a certain Amio Metayer in the Raboteau district, Gonaïves, searched several houses and severely beat the following persons, including a number of children: Elysia Pierre, Innocent Jeanty, Tamar Jeanty, Anize Jeanty (aged 10), Anièze Jeanty (aged 10), Mirlène Jeanty (aged 8), Michèle Jeanty,