E/CN.4/1992/17 page 87 (j) Selahattin Cengiz (aged 13), Halil Bardu and Sukru Kil (5 July 1991) (i) The above-mentioned persons were reportedly detained on 23 June 1991 by the gendarmerie in the village of Erkent, near Pervari, and taken to Doganca gendarmerie station. They were later transferred to the gendarmerie headquarters in Pervari. (ii) On 1 October 1991, the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that these persons had been placed in custody on 26 June 1991 for helping the terrorist organization and harbouring its members. They were brought before the Siirt prosecutor's office, which decided to release them on 1 July 1991. They did not ask to communicate with a lawyer during their period in custody. The medical reports certify that they were not ill-treated during that period. Selahattin's identity card shows that he was born in 1972. (k) Sevgi Erdogan, Cavidan Kocaacar, Fatma Patlar, Aliye Kaskir, Fatma Gulten Sesen and Nilufer Alean (23 July 1991). All six women were reportedly arrested on 14 July 1991, during a police operation and the subsequent closure of the offices of Ozgur-Der (Association of Rights and Freedoms) in Istanbul, and taken to the Istanbul police headquarters. Gavidan Kocaacar had been previously detained in February 1991 for 24 days and on 13 June 1991 for 15 days. (She was among several persons mentioned in urgent appeals dated 6 March and 26 June 1991). (1) Tevfik Ozer (23 August 1991) (i) A member of the Human Rights Association and Chairman of the People's Labour Party in Siirt, Mr. Ozer was detained by police in that town on 14 August 1991. He was allegedly severely beaten by police before being driven to the political branch of Siirt police headquarters. It was further reported that the beating was witnessed by several bystanders, who added that the police also threatened to kill him. (ii) On 14 November 1991 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Mr. Tevfik Ozer had been taken into custody on the orders of the Siirt province police and sent to prison by decision of the police court in the same province. After the investigation conducted by the prosecutor's office of the Diyarbakir State Security Court, proceedings were initiated against him on 4 September 1991 and are at present under way. According to the report drawn up after a medical examination carried out by the health service when he was brought before the Siirt prosecutor's office, Mr. Ozer bore no traces of beating or use of force. (m) Mustafa Dalgic, Mehmet Oral, official of the People's Labour Party (HEP); Fatos Yener, Executive of the HEP Iskenderun Branch; Erdogan Yener; Faruk Soylemez, Executive of the HEP Iskenderun Branch; Huseyin Gokalp, President of the Socialist Party (SP) Iskendrun Branch; Elif Reyhan; Nevruz Aydar; Teyibet Aydar (17 September 1991).