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tortured after Security and Intelligence Service officers found a radio
during an inspection of their cells: Mohammed Jamil Al-Jamri, Abdul-Jalil
Khalil Ibrahim, Seyyid Ja’afer Al-Alawi, Ali Ahmed Jassim Al-Dayri and
Nabeel Baqir. The Special Rapporteur subsequently transmitted to the
Government specific allegations regarding the treatment of Mohammed Jamil
Al-Jamri in his letter of 21 July 1994, as described along with the
Government’s reply above (20 April 1994).
50.
Al-Shaikh ’Ali Salman and Ibrahim Hassan were among a number of persons
arrested on 5 December 1994 after many Bahraini nationals had signed a
petition initiated by 14 well-known figures calling on the Amir of Bahrain to
reinstate the parliament. They were reportedly being held in Al-Qala prison
(12 December 1994).
Bangladesh
51.
By letter dated 11 July 1994 the Special Rapporteur informed the
Government that he had continued to receive reports of torture and rape by
members of the military and paramilitary forces against tribal people in the
Chittagong Hill Tracts, including the two cases described in the following
paragraphs.
52.
Prem Kumar Chakma was arrested during a military campaign against Jhum
cultivators of the Bara Pilak Hills by the 8th Engineering Corps of the
Guimara zone and the soldiers of the Sinhukchari and Dharmaghat army camps in
No. 23 Mahalchari sub-zone. He was allegedly beaten severely, taken to a
military camp and tortured. His torture was said to include electric shocks
to his ears, which caused him to become deaf.
53.
Gyang Mrasa Marma, a 20-year-old Jumma woman from the Ramgarh area, was
grazing cows on 26 August 1993 in a field near the No. 2 check-point at the
Jalia Para police camp, when a constable on duty at the check-point allegedly
attacked and raped her in the field.
54.
The Special Rapporteur also informed the Government that he had received
reports according to which children living on the streets in Dhaka were
regularly picked up by police and beaten, ill-treated, and sometimes sexually
abused in custody. Child prisoners were said to be held together with adult
prisoners.
55.
In one reported case, Mohammad Shawkat, aged 13, was seized by two
constables on 28 July 1993 and allegedly sexually assaulted in a nearby field.
The next day it was confirmed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital that he had
been sexually assaulted and that the assault had caused injury and infection
to his rectum. The two constables were suspended, but no charges were brought
against them. Mohammad Shawkat disappeared from the hospital, possibly
because he feared retribution from the police if he followed up on the case.
56.
The Special Rapporteur further informed the Government that he had
received allegations indicating that Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar
living in camps around Cox’s Bazaar had been subjected to ill-treatment from
local police and the paramilitary Ansar forces in order to coerce the refugees
into returning to Myanmar through participation in a voluntary repatriation
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