E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 124 657. An urgent appeal was made in conjunction with the Chairman of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan concerning Abdel Bagi Mandela, Mudathir ’Abd al-Rasikh, Ibrahim Fateh al-Rahman, Muhi al-Din al-Galad, ’Abd al-Rahmand Ali al-Bashir, Adlan Ahmad Abdelaziz, Awad Bahsir, Lenin al-Tayib, Mohamed al-Mustapha, Muataz Abdallah, Yasir Mohamed Ali, Tariq Yousif, Usama Siddiq Yousif, Mohamed al-Sadiq, Mohaid Mohammed Ahmad Siddiq. They were among 22 persons reportedly arrested by security officials on 2 September 1995 from a house in al-Thawra, a suburb of Omdurman. In addition, Mohamed Abdel Karim, an Islamic cleric and teacher at Qur’an al-Karim University in Khartoum, was reportedly arrested on 1 September 1995 at his home in al-Kalakala, a suburb of Khartoum. Four foreign nationals were arrested with him, including ’Abd al-Fattah, an Egyptian national, ’Abd al-Aziz, a Tunisian national and two Algerian nationals identified only as Adam and Issam. All of these persons were said to be held incommunicado in an unknown place of detention (21 September 1995). 658. A joint appeal with the Chairman of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan was sent on behalf of trade unionist Siddiq Yousif, and lawyers al-Bagir Hassab al-Rasoul, Abdallah Meshawi and Kamal al-Gizouli. Kamal al-Gizouli was arrested on 17 September and the others were arrested on 12 September 1995. They were reportedly being held incommunicado at an unknown location (25 September 1995). 659. Salah Samareit, who suffers from medical ailments, was reportedly arrested by the security forces on or around 26 September 1995 and was being held in an unknown location. On 10 October 1994 he had completed a 22-month term of imprisonment. Prior to that imprisonment he allegedly had been tortured at a secret place of detention (12 October 1995). 660. Shihab Ali Yousif, a student at the University of Omdurman, was reportedly arrested in September 1995 and was presented on national television, accused of tearing up a copy of the Koran and desecrating a mosque. He was allegedly tortured in custody (17 October 1995). 661. A joint appeal was made in conjunction with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan on behalf of the following political activists: Saudi Darraj, Ali al-Mahi al-Sakhi, Ahmad Osman, all trade unionists; Atif Haroun; Kamal ’Abd al-Karim Mirghani; Yahya Mukwar, a former member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP); and Awad Gibreel. They were reportedly arrested on or shortly after 12 September 1995 and were being held incommunicado by the security services at an unknown location (18 October 1995). 662. In a communication dated 12 December 1995, the Government provided a list to the Special Rapporteur of 58 persons who had been released pursuant to a general amnesty.