E/CN.4/1994/31 page 118 566. Mehmet Kiran was arrested on 17 June 1993 by soldiers in the village of Atala, near Mazidagi, in the province of Mardin, and taken to the gendarmerie station in Derik for interrogation. As a result of the treatment to which he was subjected one of his arms was broken. 567. On 21 June 1993, in the village of Orasar, near Cinar, province of Diyarbakir, soldiers and special team members reportedly assaulted male and female villagers, made them lie down, face to the ground and told them they would die if they moved. Then they allegedly started hitting them with the butts of their weapons, cigarettes were stubbed out on them and electrical cables attached to the armoured vehicles were used to give electrical shocks. This treatment reportedly continued all day. 568. Siddik Katan was arrested at Gümüsörgü village, near Kozluk, Batman, in July 1993 and held for 14 days at the police headquarters. As a result of the torture to which he was said to have been subjected one of his feet was broken. Urgent appeals 569. In addition, the Special Rapporteur persons who, according to the information tortured. Summaries of these appeals are which the appeals were sent are mentioned corresponding summary. sent 17 urgent appeals on behalf of received, were at risk of being reproduced below. The dates on in parentheses at the end of the 570. Kamil Mustak, Bahattin Mustak, Mehmet Mustak, Abdullah Madak (aged 65), Ahmet Baglan, Mehmet Baglan, Cafer Diri, Mahmut Diri and Mehmet Diri were allegedly arrested on 17 February 1993 in the village of Yesilyurt, province of Sirnak, by soldiers carrying out police duties, accompanied by plain-clothed police, who surrounded the village and searched the houses for guns. (29 March 1993) 571. With respect to the cases of Kamil Mustak, Bahattin Mustak and Abdullah Madak the Government replied that they had been arrested on suspicion of having links with the terrorist organization PKK. Under a letter of authorization from the Procurator’s Office of Cizre, they had been kept in custody until 3 March 1993, when they had been brought before the Procurator of Cizre. The Cizre Procurator had referred them to the magistrate’s court of Cizre, which, after cross-examination, had decided to release them. Subsequently, the Procurator’s Office of the Court of National Security at Diyarbakir had decided that there were no grounds for instituting proceedings. 572. With respect to the cases of Ahmet Baglan, Mehmet Baglan, Cafer Diri and Mehmet Diri the Government replied that they had been arrested and taken into custody following a police operation in the village of Yesilyurt, Cizre. They had been kept in custody until 1 March 1993 under authorization of the Procurator’s Office of Cizre. They had appeared before the Procurator of Cizre on 1 March 1993 and had been referred to the magistrates’ court of Cizre with a request for their committal to prison. After cross-examination, the court had decided to place the four suspects in detention on a charge of