E/CN.4/1995/34 page 120 Saoud El Kabir school in El Bakeereya, El Qasim, charging him with sexually abusing his son. Dr. Khalifa was reportedly sentenced to receive 80 lashes in front of the school when pupils were leaving, as well as another 120 lashes 60 lashes twice after Friday prayers over a period of two weeks in El Bakeereya. The Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he shared the views of other bodies within the United Nations system that corporal punishment was inconsistent with the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as enshrined in various international instruments. Observations 628. In the absence of information from the Government, the Special Rapporteur is disposed to consider that the allegations of torture and cruel and inhuman treatment and punishment of Iraqi refugees described above may be well founded. Senegal Urgent appeals sent and replies received 629. The Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government on 3 March 1994 on behalf of Lamine Samb, a teacher, who was arrested at his home on 17 February 1994 after taking part in a demonstration the previous day. He was taken to the Criminal Investigation Department in Dakar and, although in good health at the time of his arrest, he was two days later taken in a coma to the main hospital in Dakar, where he died shortly afterwards. Fears were expressed concerning the torture or ill-treatment to which he might have been subjected and which might have caused his death. According to the information received, some 40 other persons were also arrested following that demonstration. Fears were likewise expressed about the treatment to which they might be subjected during their detention. 630. On 8 July 1994 the Government replied that Lamine Samb had been taken from custody to the main Dakar hospital on 19 February because he was vomiting and suffering from vertigo. An autopsy revealed a heart attack to be the cause of his death. Neither he nor any of the other arrested demonstrators was subjected to ill-treatment in detention. Information received from the Government on cases included in previous reports 631. On 26 August 1993 the Special Rapporteur transmitted information on the case of Mody Sy, a parliamentarian who was reportedly detained in Dakar in May 1993 and tortured, including by electric shocks to his fingers and genitals, to make him confess to the murder of the Vice-President of the Constitutional Council. The Special Rapporteur also communicated the case of Ramata Guèye, arrested on 14 July 1993 in connection with the same investigation as Mr. Sy and allegedly tortured at Thiès police station. 632. By letter dated 20 January 1994 the Government replied that at the end of his police custody, Mody Sy was examined at his request by a doctor, whose official report made no mention of ill-treatment. After his first appearance before the examining magistrate on 27 May 1993, he was re-examined at the