E/CN.A/1990/17 page 31 (c) Domenico Garzon, a heroin addict, aged 28, was arrested on 26 May 1988 and held at the carabinieri station at San Bonifacio, near Verona. After attacking a guard when he was in need of a fix, he was handcuffed behind his back and, during the night of 26 May 1988, was reportedly beaten up by carabinieri. He was kicked in the Btomach, the head, his back and his legs. The following morning he was transferred to the Verona district prison. A medical certificate issued on that day by the doctor on duty at the prison certified many contusions, scratches and oedemaB in various parts of the body. On 9 August 1988 Domenico Garzon laid a complaint with the Office of the Public Prosecutor for the Verona region. A judicial inquiry was started, but according to the same source, the complaint was filed away on 17 January 1989 and Domenico Garzon was not questioned in connection with the allegations, nor did the body to which he had complained engage in any examination to find out the causes of the injuries stated on the medical certificate of 27 May 1988. Jordan 96. On 6 April 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Jordan transmitting information alleging that in early October 1988 and in the period between 17 and 22 January 1989 prisoners held in Al Swaqa prison, south of Amman, had allegedly been beaten and seriously ill-treated after protesting against their prison conditions. The prisoners who were allegedly subjected to severe ill-treatment were reported to be political prisoners. They included the following: Jamal al-Nusoor, who was allegedly severely ill-treated on 2 October 1988 and was subsequently placed incommunicado for 28 days; Maher Abu Ayyash, Umar Al-Dawaymah, Yusuf Al-Dawaymah, Ja'afar Muhammad Fares, Nihad Hasura Abu Ghawsh and Jamal Maqdawi, who were allegedly beaten and severely ill-treated on 10 October 1988, after protesting against the ill-treatment inflicted on Jamal al-Nusoor; Lua'y Dabbagh, who was allegedly hung or tied to a cell gate and beaten in front of other prisoners on 21 January 1989. In the period since 17 January 1989 other prisoners were reported to have been beaten. Between 12 and 18 of them, including the aforementioned Jamal al-Nusoor, Lua'y Dabbagh, Maher Abu Ayyash, and Umar Al-Dawaymah, as well as Khaled Daud Abdullah, Ahmad Dahbur, Muhammad Mahmud Fadaylat, Musa Mahmud Fadaylat, Brik Al-Hadid and Aref Zghul, were reported to have been placed in solitary confinement. 97. On 31 October 1989 the Government of Jordan informed the Special Rapporteur that the competent Jordanian authorities had indicated that the prisoners held at reform and vocational rehabilitation centres were treated in a humanitarian manner based on respect for their rights and dignity. There was no truth to the allegations concerning their ill-treatment or the placing of some prisoners in solitary confinement, as alleged in the reports annexed to the Special Rapporteur's letter. With regard to the prisoner Jamal al-Nusoor, the competent authorities had indicated that, due to his repeated violations of the internal prison regulations, he had been tried by a competent body, which had imposed disciplinary sanctions in accordance with the provisions of the Prisons Act. Malawi 98. On 6 April 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Malawi transmitting information alleging that four journalists who had been arrested in May 1988 and detained at Mikuyn Prison, near Zomba,