E/CN.4/2000/9 page 95 465. On 6 August 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Ali Reza Kalantri, an Iranian national who was reportedly facing imminent and forcible repatriation on 10 August 1999 from Frankfurt Airport on a Lufthansa flight to Iran, where he may have been at risk of torture. His applications for refugee status were reportedly rejected by the German authorities and he was forced to sign a document from the Iranian Consulate in Munich agreeing to return to Iran. He was reportedly arrested by the police in Cologne on 20 June 1999 while he was protesting against the Government of Iran. 466. On 11 November 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Fathelrahman Abdallah, a Sudanese asylum seeker and active member of the opposition Democratic Union Party of Sudan who was said to be facing imminent and forcible repatriation to the Sudan, where he may have been at risk of torture. The German authorities had reportedly attempted to return him forcibly three times in September, October and November 1998, after his asylum claim was first rejected. All these attempts were reportedly abandoned when he put up strong resistance. He was allegedly ill-treated by police officers during the second and third attempts. At the time the urgent appeal was written, he was being held in a detention facility in Nuremberg, pending his deportation. His doctor, who was not able to see him, reportedly diagnosed an acute heart problem and depression and believed that he should not be deported. However, the Bavarian authorities have reportedly issued a deportation order, to take effect on 12 November 1999. His lawyer is reported to have filed an appeal to the court of Ausbach pending a decision on the merits of his case. Guatemala Regular communications and replies received 467. By letter dated 12 October 1999, the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government information on Lorena Carmen Hernández Carranza and Nery Mateo Hernández, street children aged 15 who were sleeping in a park at the intersection of Avenida 15 and calle 3 in Zone 2 of Guatemala City on 11 February 1999 when they were awakened and beaten by members of the Civil Police Force (PCN). The dress of the officers showed them to be part of the Special Police Force, an élite unit within the PCN. They allegedly threw the youngsters to the ground and told them to undress, then told Nery Mateo Hernández to turn around while they sexually abused Lorena Carmen Hernández Carranza. Afterwards they reportedly ordered them to get dressed and leave, saying they would come back the next day to "bring them marijuana". The Casa Alianza Legal Aid Office reportedly took the youngsters to lodge an oral complaint on these events with the Office of the Public Counsel-General and the Office for Professional Responsibility of the Civil Police. Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 468. By letter dated 26 May 1997, the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government a number of alleged cases of torture in Guatemala. By letter dated 29 October 1998, he reminded the Government of cases on which it had supplied no information. By letters dated 14 and 21 December 1998, the Government provided responses on the cases, as outlined below. 469. Rosa Eswin el Ruiz Zacarías, Edwin Tulio Enríquez García and Belarmino González de León were reportedly detained and tortured on 13 March 1997 by a group of armed men in civilian dress in Villa Nueva, Guatemala department (see