E/CN.A/1990/17 page 54 (b) On 3 May 1989 police allegedly rounded up all the young men in the village of Korotishte, Struge region, Macedonia, and tortured them. One of the youths, Bejadin Brava, aged 26, was taken to the Dellogozhde police station and died there, allegedly after being tortured. Police later said that he had committed suicide. 169. On 22 November 1989 the Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the United Nations Office at Geneva communicated to the Special Rapporteur Information and clarifications provided by the Federal Secretariat of Justice and the Federal Secretariat for Internal Affairs. In the framework of the special measures introduced in the province of Kosovo in March 1989 following the unrest there, compulsory residence (or isolation) was applied to 238 persons, from whom a large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized. Some of these persons were detained in the communal prisons of Vranje, Leskovac and Prokuplje. The following further information was given: "On 28 and 29 March 1989, 41 persons were brought to the communal prison of Leskovac. On that occasion cases of the abuse of the official powers and duties were reported. Some of the detainees suffered, as a consequence, from light physical injuries. The official republic organs reacted immediately to these incidents, releasing from duty the responsible senior officials. After an official investigation against 11 officers in the prison of Leskovac, the public prosecutor raised charges against them on the basis of Article 66 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Serbia - criminal act of ill-treatment in the performance of duty. The trial is due soon. As far as the alleged death as a consequence of torture of Bejadin Brava is concerned, aged 26, born in Korosiste, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, reportedly detained on 3 May 1989 in the Dellogozhde police station, official records attest to the fact that no person under the name of Bejadin Brava ever existed. However, Ibrahim Beadin, born in 1958, from the village of Korosiste did report to the Dellogozhde police station on 20 and 22 April 1989, upon an official demand aimed at clarification of the circumstances of his involvement in the theft of an army rifle. During the interview Ibrahim confessed to being implicated in the theft, but stated that the rifle had actually been stolen by an acquaintance of his. As he was about to be faced with that other person, Ibrahim, having been left on his own in the room for a moment, jumped out of the window, injuring himself seriously. He was immediately transported to the Medical Centre in Struga and then to the Faculty of Medicine in Skoplje, where he succumbed to the injuries caused by the jump". Zaire 170. On 7 February 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the Government of Zaire stating that Mrs. Ehadishimba Matilde, Ekesombo Helene, Lokanu Ekonga Marie and Tosomba Owale Henriette were reported to have been arrested in April 1988 and were still being held without charge or trial by the Military Intelligence and Action Service (SARM) at its Kinshasa detention centre. According to the information received, these four ladies were raped and tortured and other ill-treatment was inflicted on them.