E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 18 admission to hospital. Three days later he had undergone surgery during which a part of his lung and a kidney were removed (see E/CN.4/1995/34, para. 80). Burundi Appels urgents 70. Le 28 mars 1995, le Rapporteur spécial a envoyé un appel urgent au gouvernement au sujet de Jean Minani, Tharcisse Nzimpora et 10 autres personnes de Kinama qui auraient été arrêtées autour du 15 mars 1995 accusées d’avoir participé à l’assassinat de l’ancien maire de Bujumbura, le lieutenant-colonel Lucien Sakubu. Selon les rapports, elles étaient détenues à la Brigade spéciale de recherche (BSR) à Bujumbura où elles auraient été soumises à des tortures. 71. Le 6 juillet 1995, le Rapporteur spécial a envoyé un autre appel urgent, conjointement avec le Rapporteur spécial sur les exécutions extrajudiciaires, sommaires ou arbitraires, attirant cette fois ci l’attention du gouvernement sur des informations reçues au sujet de la situation des réfugiés rwandais et burundais vivant dans la région frontalière entre la Tanzanie et le Burundi. Selon ces informations, depuis le mois d’avril 1995, des patrouilles à la frontière tanzanienne refoulaient des réfugiés rwandais et burundais qui, dès leur arrivée au Burundi, étaient attaqués et maltraités. Canada Urgent appeals sent and replies received 72. On 31 March 1995 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of Nadine Mbulu, the niece of the President of Anader, an opposition political party in Zaire, who arrived in Canada on 4 March 1995 and was being held at the Tanguay prison in Montreal. She had fled Zaire, where she had allegedly been subjected to ill-treatment, and was urgently in need of psychiatric care. She was said to have been unable to understand the proceedings for requesting asylum, despite which a deportation order was issued against her. Fears were expressed that if she were deported to Zaire, she might be arrested upon her arrival and face ill-treatment. 73. By letter dated 14 May 1995 the Government replied that the letter of appeal of the Special Rapporteur had not been received in time to permit immigration officials to be advised of its contents and that Nadine Mbulu had been removed from Canada to Zaire on 2 April 1995. The Department of Citizenship and Immigration had determined that the removal process was consistent with Canadian immigration law. That process had included an unsuccessful application by Ms. Mbulu to the Federal Court of Canada for a stay of execution of the removal order.