E/CN.4/1995/34 page 132 House", an army barracks near the White Nile bridge known as the Mechanized Battalion, and the headquarters of the Internal Security Agency near the old commercial centre were places where torture was reported to be often carried out. The following cases were reported: (a) Ahmed Nasser was arrested in Dilling in May 1992 and allegedly blinded deliberately before being released; (b) Khalifa Naway, a miner and Shaib Sabreya, a farmer from al-Maryam, were allegedly tortured by troops in the Tima area after they were captured and accused of being members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA); (c) Ismael Sultan and Sheik Hamdin, a chief from Katla south of Dilling, were allegedly tortured to death in April 1992 in el-Obeid; (d) Mohamed Hamad and Ramadan Jaska, both from Dilling, were reportedly tortured to death. Urgent appeals transmitted to the Government and replies received 689. The Special Rapporteur made 12 urgent appeals on behalf of the persons mentioned in the following paragraphs. The dates on which the appeals were transmitted appear in brackets at the end of the corresponding summaries. 690. Four senior members of the banned Umma Party were arrested in Khartoum during the first week of February 1994 under Decree Two of the emergency laws. They were identified as El-Fadil Adam Ismail, Secretary General of the Umma Party’s youth organization; Abdallah Barakat, imam of the Ansar religious order; Ismail el-Haj Baloul; and Dafallah Mohamed Abdallah. Their place of detention was not disclosed, thus preventing the families and lawyers having access to them (23 February 1994). 691. Magdi Mohamedani, a trade unionist and member of the banned Sudan Communist Party (SCP), was reportedly arrested in Khartoum in early February 1994 and was being held incommunicado in an unknown detention centre (3 March 1994). 692. ’Izzat Mirghani Taha’, Ala Mirghani Taha, Ali Hassan Taha, Adil Samsa’ah, Khalifa Khader Kemair, Kamal Abu al-Gassim, Kamal Osman Badai, Kamal Badai, Bashir Badai, Hamuda al-Sheikh, Khajeli Saleh Khajeli, Dr. Kamal Mahmud Gadien, Baha’ Abul-Qasim, Saad Karrar, Ali Jaaf’er, Ali-Sadiq Abdel-Magid, Hamaza, Rabie’ Ahmed al-Rayah, and Abdel-Rahim Faisel were among a group of around 30 individuals arrested on 10 March 1994 by security officials. The arrests were said to have taken place at a house in Khartoum where relatives and friends were gathering to commemorate the anniversary of the execution of 28 army officers on 24 April 1990. It was reported that some persons were assaulted at the time of their arrest. 693. By the same appeal, the Government was informed that information had been received regarding the arrest on 27 February 1994 of Abdel-Mahmud Abbo, a leading member of the Ansar religious order, the day after he had made a speech critical of the Government at Wad Nubawi mosque in Omdurman. The next morning the following Umma Party members, who had been at the mosque were also