E/CN.A/1992/17 page 26 Ashraf Mahmoud and Sayed Abdel Razzek. The following two persons were said to have died as a result of torture: Ibrahim Mahrous Abu Donyia and Maher Mohammed Youssef. 83. In addition to the aforementioned, the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government information he had received concerning Dr. Mohamed Mandour, regarding whom a telegram had been sent to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 19 February 1991, appealing to him to ensure that Dr. Mandour's right to physical and mental integrity was protected. According to that information Dr. Mandour had been released on 23 February 1991. During his detention at the Lazoghli State Security Headquarters Dr. Mandour had been severely tortured, including through the use of suspension, beatings and electric shocks. 84. On 18 October 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Egypt transmitting information according to which torture and ill-treatment were routine methods of discipline, punishment and the extraction of confessions in the Tora district prisons, in particular Tora Istikbal prison; visits and letters from prisoners' families were constantly delayed and hindered, allegedly in order to let torture injuries heal before they were seen. It was also reported that the Egyptian authorities had been misusing the emergency law against peaceful political opposition, despite their claims that the emergency law was used only against terrorist activities and armed opposition. The case of Afifi Matlar was reported in particular. This person, a poet and member of the Arab Journalists' Federation and the Egyptian Writers' Federation, was arrested on 2 March 1991 and taken to the Cairo headquarters of the State Security Intelligence (SSI) at Lazoghli. While in police custody, he was allegedly kept blindfolded and handcuffed in order to make him confess ties with a Baathist political organization, and was allegedly tortured by the application of electric shocks, hanging by the wrists and indiscriminate beating with a solid object on the head and various parts of the body. On 11 March 1991, he was reportedly transferred to Tora Istikbal prison where lawyers, as members of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), were at first prevented from visiting him. When three representatives of EOHR finally were able to visit him, they reportedly noted signs of torture on his body, including haematoma on the nose and wrists, and signs of injuries that were still healing. It was further indicated that EOHR submitted an official complaint to the Public Prosecutor, calling for Mr. Matlar1s release and the prosecution of those responsible for his torture. It was not reported whether an inquiry had been carried out into the above-mentioned allegations. 85. Information was also transmitted according to which the State Security Court trying the case of the assassination of the former Speaker of Parliament, Dr. Rifa'at al-Mahgoub (see para. 81 above), had charged one of its members to investigate the torture allegations made by the defendants in the case before the public prosecution. According to the defendants' testimony, the torture methods used upon them included the application of electric shocks to sensitive parts of the body, hanging for long periods of time, beating with whips and thick wooden sticks, and the detention and ill-treatment of a number of the defendants' wives. In this connection in particular, information was received by the Special Rapporteur on the torture and attempted rape of the wife of the detainee Mamdouh Ali Yusuf by members of the State Security Police, who tried to force her to divulge information