A/HRC/19/61/Add.4 (d) JUA 01/02/2011 Case No. EGY 4/2011 State reply: None to date Alleged arrests, excessive use of force, killings, attacks against journalists, and disruptions in media coverage and access to the Internet in relation to demonstrations. 50. The Special Rapporteur regrets that the Government of Egypt has not responded to this communication, thereby failing to cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council. The communication referred to allegations of arrests, enforced disappearance, excessive use of force, killings, and attacks against journalists in Egypt since 25 January 2011. According to the information received, the following demonstrators were killed between 25 and 29 January 2011: Mutapha Ragab, aged 21, Sulaiman Saber, aged 35, Ghareeb Abdulall, Fayez Fahim, Mohamed Ahmed Yosph, aged 23, Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud, aged 26, Alae Abdelmehsen, Mustapha Abdellah, Mohamed Sha„ban Bashir, aged 30, Mutafa Jamal Wardani, Eraddi Mohamed „eraddi, Ahmed Ali Mohamed, Achraf Nour Al DIn Mohamed, aged 40, Islam Metwali Mohamed, Sharif Al Sayed Redwan, Faraj Abdelfatah Awad, Mohamed Mahrous Anwar, Samir Abdellah, aged 55, Ali Ahmed Ali, Abdelmajeed Abdelalim Abdelmajeed, aged 41. Moreover, information received indicates that the following journalists suffered beatings and other ill-treatment by security forces while covering the demonstrations: Mr. Asadallah al-Sawi, Mr. Ahmad Mansour, Mr. Ben Wedemen and Ms. Mary Roger. Accordingly, the Special Rapporteur is gravely concerned about the fate and whereabouts of demonstrators identified in the communication. The Special Rapporteur affirms that repression of demonstrations with excessive use of force constitutes either torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, depending on the gravity of the pain and suffering inflicted on demonstrators. The Special Rapporteur considers enforced disappearance a form of incommunicado detention and notes that paragraph 8(b) of Human Rights Council Resolution 16/23 of 12 April 2011 asserts that “[p]rolonged incommunicado detention or detention in secret places can facilitate the perpetration of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and can in itself constitute a form of such treatment, and urges all States to respect the safeguards concerning the liberty, security and the dignity of the person and to ensure that secret places of detention and interrogation are abolished.” Accordingly, based on the information received, the Special Rapporteur determines that the rights under the UN Convention against Torture of the identified journalists have been violated. The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government to immediately investigate the whereabouts and fate of the disappeared journalists, and ensure that perpetrators of torture and other ill-treatment are prosecuted, no matter their military rank or other affiliation. Moreover, the Government must ensure that all individuals whose rights have been violated obtain redress, including fair and adequate compensation, and as full rehabilitation as possible. (e) JAL 01/04/2011 Case No. EGY 6/2011 State reply: None to date Alleged torture inflicted by the army on peaceful demonstrators. 51. The Special Rapporteur regrets that the Government of Egypt has not responded to this communication, thereby failing to cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council. The communication referred, inter alia, to the alleged torture of 18 women detained by the Egyptian military during a peaceful protest in Tahrir Square. The women were reportedly handcuffed, beaten, given electric shocks, and called prostitutes. 17 were transferred to a military prison where prison guards subjected them to “virginity tests.” In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur determines that the rights of these individuals under the UN Convention against Torture have been violated, and calls on the Government of Egypt to undertake a prompt, impartial and effective investigation of the alleged acts of torture, leading to prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators, and to provide redress to the victims. 24