E/CN.4/1990/17 page 52 In 1988 several cases of torture were alleged. They concerned prisoners held and interrogated by the Internal Security Organization (ISO) or military intelligence and were allegedly carried out in the ISO headquarters in the former Organization of African Unity Bureau of Languages building in Kampala and in Basiima House, the military intelligence headquarters, near Lubiri barracks. In March 1988 Joseph Lusigazi was reportedly arrested in Kampala and subjected to the torture method known as kandoova (tying the victim's arms together above the elbows, behind the back, a practice which often results in damage to the nerves, paralysis - sometimes indefinitely - or gangrene, leading to amputation of the arm). He was later allegedly killed at Basiima House by having a nail driven into his head. In March 1988 Isaac Segomba was reportedly arrested by the NRA in the Kololo area, near Kampala. He was taken to Lubiri barracks and later to Basiima .House. He allegedly died after having a nail hammered into his penis and being stabbed with a knife in the stomach. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 164. On 18 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics transmitting information alleging that the practice of forcible internment in psychiatric hospitals of political and human rights activists continued to occur in the Soviet Union. The following cases were reported: (a) Mr. Valentin Vasileyevich Cheban, from Brichany district of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, was allegedly arrested on 7 April 1989 by members of the militia for trying to organize an electoral meeting. He was later allegedly forcibly admitted to Moldavia Psychiatric Hospital No. 5, where he was said to undergo psychotropic medicine treatment; (b) Mr. Fedor Petrovich Edamenko, from Belgorod, was allegedly arrested on 15 March 1989 by members of the militia for having organized an electoral meeting on 8 March 1989, and was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital; (c) Mr. Sergey Kuznetsov, member of the Democratic Union in Sverdlovsk, was allegedly arrested on 11 December 1988 and charged with slander and resisting arrest. He was reportedly held in Butyrski prison in Moscow, where he was allegedly beaten, and subsequently moved to the Sverdlovsk municipal prison. In the course of his detention he was reportedly transferred to the Serbian Institute of Forensic Psychiatry to undergo tests, and was found to be mentally healthy. 165. On 16 October 1987 the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics transmitted to the Special Rapporteur the reply by the Specialized Medical Care Administration of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, giving the following information: (a) Valentin Vasilyevich Cheban had been under observation by psychiatrists for chronic mental illness since 1956. He had been repeatedly examined and treated as an in-patient in psychiatric hospitals and the diagnosis was confirmed. His latest admission to a psychiatric hospital, in April 1989, took place with the patient's consent as a result of a worsening of his condition. He had been discharged and was now at home; (b) Fedor Petrovich Edamenko had been suffering from chronic mental illness since 1972. He had repeatedly undergone treatment in psychiatric