E/CN.4/2001/66 page 130 Urgent appeals 667. Le 9 octobre 2000, le Rapporteur spécial a envoyé un appel urgent conjoint avec le Rapporteur sur les exécutions extrajudiciaires, sommaires ou arbitraires en faveur de 28 soldats qui auraient été arrêtés suite à l’attaque dirigée le 18 septembre 2000 contre la résidence privée du chef de l’État. La plupart seraient des gardes du corps du Général Gueï et seraient accusés d’avoir tenté un coup d’État. Certains auraient été torturés en détention alors que d’autres auraient été exécutés. SanSan Kampiré serait décédé des suites des tortures qu’il aurait subies. Son corps aurait été retrouvé à la morgue du centre hospitalier universitaire de Treichville. Le sergent-chef Souleymane Diomande, surnommé “La grenade”, le caporal Vada Bamba, le caporal Finaly Bakoyoko et le capitaine Issa Sacko seraient détenus au secret. Certaines des personnes arrêtées étaient détenues dans un ancien camp militaire appelé “La poudrière”. Le sergent Seydou Kone, le caporal Aboudrahamane Issa et le caporal Siaka Ouattara auraient été torturés à la Maison d’arrêt militaire d’Abidjan (MAMA). Un certain nombre de civils auraient par ailleurs été arrêtés suite à l’attaque sur la résidence du Général Gueï et certains d’entre eux seraient actuellement détenus au secret à la gendarmerie d’Agban. Jamaica 668. By letter dated 8 November 2000, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1998 regarding which no reply had been received. Kazakhstan 669. By letter dated 5 October 2000, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information falling within his mandate. By letter dated 8 December 2000, the Government responded to these allegations. 670. The Special Rapporteur had received information according to which a number of detainees had been severely beaten, choked, handcuffed to radiators or had plastic bags or gas masks placed over their heads to force them to divulge information. On 19 April 2000, President Nursultan Nazarbayev reportedly publicly admitted that torture and ill-treatment of suspects and detainees by law enforcement officers was becoming widespread and common practice. The President reportedly stated that a third of the 16,000 complaints received by the presidential administration in 1999 concerned abuses by law enforcement officers. 671. In particular, the Special Rapporteur transmitted information on the following individual cases. 672. Irina Cherkasova was allegedly tortured in police custody in order to force her to confess to a murder charge. She was allegedly beaten upon arrival at the Abaysk District Office of Internal Affairs (ROVD) in the city of Chimkent. She was allegedly beaten with a bottle filled with water, sticks, books and keys. The officers reportedly undressed her, bent her over and sexually assaulted her with a stick, two of them pinning her down and one forcing her mouth shut. A forensic doctor later recorded injuries which were said to be consistent with her report that one of the officers had threaded a pencil between her fingers, then beat her hand against her knee. It is alleged that another officer beat her with some instrument that was