E/CN.4/1992/17 page 84 (i) The above-named persons were detained on 17 March 1991, following an incident the previous day in which five members of the Kurdish Workers Party were shot in a clash near the town of Oraerli and summarily buried. They were reportedly taken to the gendarmerie regimental headquarters in Mardin where emergency legislation was in force. (ii) On 3 June 1991 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that after due interrogation and investigation, Mecit Akgun and Suleyman Balan had been arrested, and the others released. An investigation had established that they had not been subjected to any kind of unlawful treatment while in custody and these findings had been confirmed by medical reports. Furthermore, none of the persons in question had requested to see a lawyer during the custody period. (e) Zeynep Aldogan (5 April 1991). (i) The above-named female student was reportedly detained in Ankara on 20 March 1991 during a student demonstration and taken to the Political Branch of Ankara Police Headquarters. It was further reported that she had been previously detained in July 1988 and subjected to ill-treatment. A report by a forensic medical institute, dated 11 August 1988, reportedly supported her allegations. (ii) On 27 May 1991 the Government replied that she had been taken into custody because of participation in an illegal separatist propaganda meeting and released on 29 March 1991. She requested to see neither her relatives nor her lawyer while in custody. Medical reports certified that she had not been subjected to any kind of unlawful treatment. (f) Devrim Sezen, Murat Ozturk and Ulker Karayel (13 May 1991), students, were detained on 1 May 1991 in Istanbul, in connection with Labour Day activities. The first two were reportedly taken to the Political Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters, whereas Ulker Karayel was taken into custody in Kadikoy district of Istanbul. (g) Omer Ozer, Resit Altin, Faik Yilmaz, Mehmet Silik, Celal Cicek, Ibrahim Guclu, Ahmet Ozhan, Bedri Erdem, Ismail Esmeray, Nezim Ozkan, Nuriye Erdem, aged 12, Sedika Bestas, aged 13, Ismail Olcay Aran, Fidan Yabaneri, (23 May 1991). (i) As regards the first 10 persons mentioned above, villagers of Payamli near Siirt, it was alleged that in April and May 1991 they had been made to spend the hours of darkness in a trench situated to the east of the village gendarmerie station and that they were being used as a human shield against possible attack by guerillas of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Nuriye Erdem and Sedika Bestas, from the same village of Payamli, had been held by the Siirt gendarmerie since 30 April 1991. Ismail Olcay Aran and Fidan Yabaneri, students at Diyarbakir University, were detained on 1 May 1991; following a