E/CN.4/1995/34 page 10 detainees by exclusively male personnel constitute conditions that may be conducive to rape and sexual abuse of women prisoners or the threat or fear thereof. II. INFORMATION REVIEWED BY THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR WITH RESPECT TO VARIOUS COUNTRIES 25. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur transmitted 144 urgent appeals to 45 Governments concerning some 716 individuals (at least 108 known to be women), as well as several groups of persons, with regard to whom fears of torture had been expressed. He also sent 53 letters containing some 658 cases (about 62 known to be women) or incidents of alleged torture. If the information received contained a critical analysis of a more general nature regarding the phenomenon of torture, this information was also brought to the attention of the Governments concerned. In addition, 34 countries provided the Special Rapporteur with replies on some 239 cases submitted during the current year, whereas 18 did so with respect to some 193 cases submitted in previous years. Algeria Urgent appeals 26. The Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government on 16 March 1994 concerning Tunisian nationals Zine El Abidine Attia, Idriss Nouioui, Kaddour Naghmouchi, Mahjoubi Soltan, Nassereddine Khelisi, Barhoumi Boumenjel, Bechir Aboud Abdeljaouad, and Jebari Boujemaa, who had requested asylum in Algeria because they feared persecution in their own country as a result of their support for the al-Nahda Islamic Movement. The persons were reportedly arrested in Algiers on 9 February 1994, except for Jebari Boujemaa, who was arrested in Tebessa on 25 February. Fears were expressed that they might be sent back to Tunisia, where they would be in danger of being arrested on arrival and tortured. 27. On 29 November 1994 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of Abdelkrim Mammeri, head of personnel at the Ministry of Justice, who on 12 November 1994 was arrested at his home in Algiers by four persons, two of whom wore military police uniforms. Members of his family were allegedly ill-treated during his arrest. He was being held incommunicado at an unknown place of detention. Angola Information received from the Government with respect to cases included in previous reports 28. On 19 October 1994 the Government replied with respect to the situations of Charles Mopti and Godfrey Absalom Nangonya, whose cases were transmitted to the Government by letter dated 26 August 1993. The reply, however, did not address the allegations of torture raised in those cases.