E/CN.4/1995/34 page 73 application of electric shocks, lashings with iron rods, stomping on the body, rape and other forms of sexual abuse, and burning parts of the body with cigarettes. 382. Reports were also received according to which detainees in Kopassus prison in Lammeulo, Aceh, underwent particularly harsh treatment. Detainees were allegedly held for many months and sometimes for several years without any judicial proceedings or contact with the outside world. The prisoners were said to be denied medical care and a number of them were allegedly tortured to death. 383. Reports further indicated the persistence of a broad pattern of military and police intervention in labour disputes in Indonesia which frequently resulted in the detention and torture or ill-treatment of workers and labour activists. In this connection, the Special Rapporteur transmitted the individual cases summarized in the following paragraphs. 384. Riswan Lubis, Secretary of the Medan Branch of the Indonesian Prosperous Workers Union, was one of more than 100 workers and labour activists reported to have been arrested in connection with labour unrest in Medan in April 1994. He was allegedly arrested by police at his home at 2 a.m. on 15 April 1994, taken to Poltabes Medan and subjected to beatings. 385. Sukiman (alias Yusuf) was one of 29 workers and activists arrested during a strike at PT Industri Karet Deli, Medan, on 11 March 1994. He was allegedly detained by plainclothes police, put in a company-owned vehicle and tortured in a warehouse. Thereafter, he was reportedly detained at Poltabes Medan, where relatives visiting him observed open wounds on his face and legs and severe bruising. 386. Marsinah, a factory worker, was allegedly tortured and raped before being killed in early May 1993, reportedly because of her role as a labour activist. In the days prior to her death, she was said to have been actively involved in a strike at the watch factory where she worked. It was alleged that Marsinah may have been raped and killed on 5 May 1993 at the local military headquarters where she had gone to look for colleagues who had been detained by authorities of the district and sub-district military commands intervening in the dispute. Her body, bloodied and heavily bruised with marks of strangulation, reportedly turned up on 8 May in a small shack in a field about 200 kilometres from her home in Porong, East Java. An autopsy was said to have revealed that her attacker had thrust a blunt instrument into her vagina, causing severe bleeding. Nine employees of the company involved in the labour dispute and one sub-district military commander were charged in connection with the incident and four of the defendants were convicted in April 1994. All of the civilian defendants were said to have had confessions extracted under duress or torture and to have subsequently retracted those confessions at trial. It was alleged that their prosecution was undertaken to cover up the role of the military in the incident. The military commander who was implicated was said to have been charged in a military proceeding only with a disciplinary offence for failing to report a crime. 387. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted information he had received alleging that the vast majority of people arrested in East Timor, including