E/CN.4/1991/17 page 7 25. On 6 June 1990 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Bahrain transmitting information alleging that in 1988 and 1989 the practice of arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention without formal charges, and torture for the purpose of extracting confessions continued to occur. Victims principally included anti-Government supporters, members of banned political groups, such as the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain (IFLB) and the Bahrain National Liberation Front (BNLF), and members of Christian minorities. The following cases of alleged torture were reported: (a) Sheikh Saeed Alsalatneh, of the Alnaim district, was arrested in mid-May 1989. He was detained for one month, and was allegedly subjected to physical torture, as a result of which he suffered fractures in his legs. He was later released; (b) Salah Abdulla Habil Alkhawaja, 26 years old, of Almanama, was arrested on 2 November 1988 and allegedly subjected to torture in the form of electric shocks as of 26 December 1988 following his extradition from Saudi Arabia; (c) Nabil Baker Ibrahim, a 23-year-old engineer from Almanama, Ahmad Husain Mirza, a 22 year old teacher from Almanama, and Khaled Abdulrasul Mohamad, a 24 year old teacher of Umulhimam, were allegedly subjected to various types of torture since their detention in December 1987. Ahmad Mirza and Khaled Mohamad were allegedly pulled by a jeep on rocky terrain in the Al Sekheir district, as a result of which they suffered severe injuries; (d) Mr. Ahmed Almakabi, aged 30, was arrested by the Special Intelligence Service (S.I.S.) and was reportedly tortured; (e) Abbas Ahmad Yusef of Rasrumman, a student of Engineering in Riyadh University, was arrested in connection with activity for the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. He was allegedly subjected to torture and kept in a deteriorating condition for four years. 26. On 6 August 1990 the Government of Bahrain informed the Special Rapporteur that "The security services in Bahrain do not practice torture. The persons named were not subjected to any form of physical or mental torture and were not detained on political grounds. They were arrested and referred to the examining magistrate for questioning. Those who were indicted were sent for trial by the courts and those against whom no charges were preferred were released". With regard to the persons mentioned in the Special Rapporteur's letter the following information was given: "Said Sultan Mansour al-Salatneh appeared before the examining magistrate on 14 June 1989. No charges were preferred against him and he was released on 1 July 1989. Salah Abdullah Habil al-Khawaja was tried in court and sentenced to a term of seven years' imprisonment. Ahmad Hussein Mirza, Nabil Baqir Ibrahim and Khalid Abdur-Rasoul Muhammad al-Amir were tried in court and sentenced to terms of imprisonment, on 26 October 1989. The names Ahmed al-Makabi and Abbas Ahmad Yusef were not found in the records of the Ministry of the Interior".