E/CN.4/1992/17 page 88 (i) These 9 persons were reportedly among some 40 mourners detained on 2 September 1991 when they attended the funeral of a militant of the Kurdish Workers' Party, and taken to police headquarters in Iskenderun, Siirt Province, Southern Turkey. (ii) By a letter dated 11 November 1991 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that the ceremony had turned into an illegal demonstration, during which 37 persons had been arrested. Mehmet Oral, Farak Soylemez and Elif Reyhan, among others, were taken into custody and brought before the Malatya State Security Court. Mustafa Dalgiç was not taken into custody. According to the report drawn up by the health service clinic at Malatya, no evidence of beating was found during medical examinations of the persons taken into custody. (n) Hüseyin Toraman (5 November 1991), detained in Istanbul on 27 October 1991, and said to be held in incommunicado detention at Istanbul police headquarters. The source further reported that Hüseyin Toraman's father, Mr. Ali Reza Toraman, had been detained by the police some six months previously, and that he had been tortured until he agreed to take the police to his son's address. Police officers were said to have kept Hüseyin Toraman's home under constant surveillance while he was in hiding. 244. On 14 December 1990 the Government of Turkey sent a letter to the Special Rapporteur in reply to his urgent appeal dated 28 November 1990 (see E/CN.4/1991/17, para. 186) regarding several persons detained in Istanbul in November 1990. The Special Rapporteur was informed that several of the persons mentioned in his message had had a public law suit initiated against them on charges of membership of an armed illegal organization and violation of the law on assembly and meetings. The attorney of two of these persons has lodged a formal complaint, claiming that he had been denied access to his clients despite the permission issued by the prosecutor. Due legal action had been initiated against the officials concerned on the basis of the said complaint. Several persons were released. As regards the alleged torture to which these persons had been subjected during their detention the following was stated: "The Public Prosecutor of Istanbul has launched an investigation into allegations of mistreatment concerning Imam Fidan, Nazan Celiker, Mustafa Eser, Ibrahim Sahin, Imán Ddgüs, Ali Dogüs, Nurten Demir, Ali Tasózü, Mithat Zafer, Nihat Ozcan, Zeynep Polat and Sengül Mert. The medical report issued on 29 November 1990 by the Istanbul Forensic Department with regard to the above-named persons is being duly considered in the course of this investigation, which has not been completed yet." 245. The Special Rapporteur also sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Turkey on behalf of Mr. Yavuz Binbay, following Commission on Human Rights resolution 1991/70 (see para. 23 above).