E/CN.4/1994/31 page 129 635. With respect to this case the Government replied on 4 November 1993 that no criminal or torts proceeding had been brought against a person named Muhamet Hamiti and that nobody by this name had been detained in the district prison since 12 October 1993. Information received from the Government on cases included in previous reports 636. On 19 January 1993 the Government provided the Special Rapporteur with information on the cases referred to in the following paragraphs, which had been communicated to it on 21 August 1992. 637. Marco Mikela, a lawyer, died after he was arrested on 31 October 1991 while leaving Pec for the village of Sutpe. According to the Government, the traffic patrol on the Pec-Stupe road stopped the car Marko Mikela was in, on 31 October 1991. When asked to produce identification he refused and injured a policeman, then he tried to seize an automatic gun from one of the police who pushed him to the ground. He received a few scratches and bruises. At the police station, Marko Mikela became sick and was immediately taken to the neurosurgery clinic in Pristina, where he died on 11 November 1991. The doctor who performed the autopsy on him, stated that Mikela had died from natural causes. The police used force against Marko Mikela and the other passenger in his car, trying to repel their attack. No force was used against them in the police station. 638. Ali Hadzija, a refugee from Albania living in Kosovo, died on 25 November 1991 after having been arrested by the police and taken to Urosevac. According to the Government, he was arrested under an order issued by the municipal court for petty offences in Urosevac. The next day he was taken to the district prison in Pristina where he died. The Forensic Institute of the Medical School in Pristina carried out an autopsy and found that he had died of a heart attack. When he was detained in the district prison, Ali Hadzija said nothing about his health condition. 639. Rifati Redzep, a journalist of the Bujku magazine, and Selim Djizimi, principal of the elementary school in the village of Kamena Glava near Urosevac, were reportedly tortured in November 1991 at the police headquarters in Urosevac. According to the Government, they were brought to the police station because they organized the celebration of the National Day of Albania in the "Fazli Obradza" elementary school in Kamena Glava. The celebration was opened by playing the Albanian national anthem. The song sung and the verses read had nationalistic and hostile connotations. During the proceedings, Selim Djazimi was sentenced to 40 days’ imprisonment for organizing the celebration, while Redzep Rifati was only interrogated. The allegations concerning the use of force against these persons were completely unfounded. 640. Rustem Sefedini was allegedly severely beaten by the Urosevac police in October 1991. According to the Government, the allegations about physical ill-treatment were false. He was brought to the police station for having organized a protest of students, their parents, teachers and other people of Albanian origin against the school programmes. The municipal magistrate sentenced him to 60 days in prison for organizing an unauthorized rally, disparaging the authorities and disturbing citizens.