E/CN.4/1992/17 page 76 a lawyer; Galal Al Din Al Sayed, a lawyer; Usheiri Ahmed Mahmoud, an assistant at the university; Hamuda Fatah al Rahman, a doctor; Farouq Koudoda, an assistant at the university, Khery Abdel Rahman, an engineer; Siddiq Al Zilaei, a journalist; Al Sheik Al Khider, a civil servant; Naguib Nagem El Din, a doctor; Ali al Mahxxi Al Sakhi, a labourer; Kamel Abdel Rahman Sheik, a labourer; Mahgoub Osman Moh. Khier, a journalist; and Kamal Al Gezouli, a lawyer who had been held in the prison of Port Sudan. 221. The following detainees, whose detention place was not reported, had allegedly been subjected to torture: Mohammed Omar Mirghani, aged 62, ex-director of the Sudanese Railway Company; Mokhtar Abdullah, a trade union activist; Yussef Hussein, a former journalist, arrested on 11 January 1990; Abedel Moneim Osman, an economist; Nagi Eldayeb, a pharmacist; Yacoub Mohamed Ahmed; and Hassan al Imam, allegedly tortured to death in the office of the Sudanese Security Services. Thailand Letters and Government replies 222. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Thailand transmitting information according to which seven asylum-seekers from Myanmar were severely beaten and ill-treated by Thai police officers at the Suan Phluu immigration detention centre (IDC) in Bangkok. Their names were reported as follows: Myo Min Oo alias Aung Naing Oo, aged 25; Aung Win, aged 19; Maung Maung Lwin; Win Aung, aged 24; Aung Htun, aged 29; Aung Naing Oo, aged 21; and Win Thein, aged 26. The incident reportedly followed a demonstration by asylum-seekers in the detention centre, when immigration police officers and prisoner "trusties" allegedly beat and kicked the asylum-seekers. The beatings allegedly included the use of batons and pistol butts. The most serious injuries were allegedly sustained by Myo Min Oo, alias Aung Naing Oo, Aung Win and Win Aung, who reportedly complained of possible bone fractures and other untreated injuries. 223. On 18 June 1991 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur of the findings of an investigation held into the above-mentioned incident by the Royal Thai Police Department. It emerged that, in order to break up disturbances caused by illegal immigrants from Myanmar who were detained at the Suan Plu Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok, and to prevent other illegal immigrants nearby, who did not take part in the disturbances, from being harmed, immigration officials tried to separate the illegal immigrants from Myanmar from the others. During this operation the Myanmar immigrants offered resistance and attacked the officials, who none the less finally succeeded in breaking up the disturbances. It was affirmed that none of the said illegal immigrants from Myanmar was beaten by the officers, and that the immigrants were later able to receive a visit and to be interviewed by a representative of a United Nations organization. Togo Letters 224. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Togo transmitting information to the effect that the Togolese security