E/CN.4/1995/34 page 14 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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