E/CN.4/1992/17 page 60 Bushra Bibi and Anwari were raped in August 1990 by prison officers at Sheikhupura District Jail, Punjab province, and that a medical examination confirmed the allegations. 175. Information was also transmitted on cases of death as a result of torture, including the following: (a) Abdol Khaliq Mehar, arrested on 5 November, 1990, in Bachal village, Karachi, Sind province, by police officers from New Town police station. He was held in detention for a few hours, during which time he was severely tortured. As a result of his multiple contusions and wounds, he died in the Karachi Civil Hospital on 30 November 1990; (b) Haroon Siddique, aged 25, was arrested on 5 August 1990, in Lahore, Punjab, and taken to the Nawan Kot police station where he was allegedly subjected to torture. On 15 August he was brought back to his home by policemen, apparently in a state of coma. He died in hospital three days later; (c) Bhag Masih, aged 58, was arrested on 10 March 1990 in Gulberg, Lahore, and taken to the police station. When his relatives arrived they found him lying unconscious on the lawn outside. He died at the Services Hospital a few hours later. Letters and Government replies 176. On 14 February 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Peru transmitting information on the following cases of torture alleged to have occurred during 1990: (a) Fidel Intusca Fernández, a driver at the Utec mines in San Juan de Lucanas, Ayacucho, arrested on 6 August 1990 by armed soldiers wearing hoods and taken to the military base at Puquio, where he was allegedly severely tortured. A few days later, he managed to escape and told the press that during his detention he had been hung from the roof, held under water to the point where he nearly lost consciousness, burned on his back and neck, beaten up, trampled and threatened with death; (b) Ramón Lozano Panduro, a 33-year-old peasant, arrested together with other persons, including women and children, on 28 August 1990, by members of the security forces, in the Department of San Martin. He was taken to the Madre Mía barracks and released eight days later. During his detention he was allegedly tortured, among other things kept untied in a damp pit, beaten up and trampled on. Attempts were also made to hang him. As a result of this ill-treatment, Mr. Lozano still suffers pain throughout his body and constant pain in his kidneys and head; (c) Rosaría María Carrasco López, 21 years old, arrested on 2 August 1990 when she went to the Technical Police station in Chimbóte to pick up a certificate. The reason for her arrest was that a warrant had been issued from Abancay, Department of Apurimac, for one María Carrasco López for