E/CN.4/1995/34 page 88 Samuel Mwangi Kariuki received an injury to his hip. The three were ordered released by the Nakuru magistrate on 28 January 1994 when the charges against them were dropped. Urgent appeals 460. The Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government on 18 July 1994 on behalf of Geoffrey Kuria Kariuki; Anthony Njuguna Njui, a local official of the Ford-Asili party and former councillor in Molo; John Kinyanjui, a member of the group Release Political Prisoners (RPP); and Jimmy James Waigwa. These persons were reportedly arrested during the weekend of 9 and 10 July 1994 and were being held incommunicado in police detention in Nakuru police station. Geoffrey Kuria Kariuki was allegedly severely tortured and a habeas corpus application was reportedly being filed by his lawyer in the High Court because he feared for his life. Fears were expressed that the other men were also at risk of torture. 461. The Special Rapporteur sent another urgent appeal concerning the same cases to the Government on 15 August 1994. According to further information received, Anthony Njuguna Njui was arrested again on 30 July 1994, his family and lawyers were denied permission to see him and he had not been brought to court or charged. Geoffrey Kuria Kariuki and George Muragu Ichangai were among six defendants charged with violence and possession of firearms on 19 July 1994. They alleged that they had been tortured in custody and the presiding magistrate ordered that they should receive medical treatment before he would hear their pleas. Geoffrey Kuria Kariuki, suffering from headaches and eye pains, was reportedly disoriented and the examining doctor recommended that he be given a brain scan. George Muragu Ichangai was said to be suffering pain when passing urine and the doctor reportedly recommended an examination of his bladder. It was alleged that neither of the two men had been given access to the treatment recommended for them. 462. On 2 December 1994 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information indicating that Geoffrey Kuria Kariuki, held in Nakuru prison, had on 14 October undergone a brain scan which revealed the presence of a subdural haematoma, a condition said to require immediate surgery. The surgeon who later saw him requested a second opinion on the scan, but none had yet been received, nor had Geoffrey Kuria Kariuka received any treatment. It was feared that without a new scan and, if appropriate, an operation, he was at risk of a serious deterioration in his state of health. Kyrgyzstan Information transmitted to the Government 463. By letter dated 17 August 1994 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information concerning three minors, Valery Fyodorov, Vitaly Rakitin, and Dmitry Frolov, who were reportedly detained in March 1994 by police in Bishkek on suspicion of threatening the life of a police officer. The three were said to have been tortured into confessing to the crime. Vitaly Rakitin and Dmitry Frolov were allegedly beaten about the head, punched in the chest and in the kidney area, and thrown against the wall during two days of questioning at Sverdlovsk district police