E/CN.4/1991/17 page 32 101. On 23 October 1990 the Special Rapporteur sent un urgent appeal to the Government of Kenya concerning three persons arrested on 8 October 1990, apparently in connection with the detention of Mr. Wa Wamwere. They are Mirugi Kariuki, a lawyer in Nakuru, Rumba Kinuthia, a lawyer in Nairobi, and Christopher Kamuyu, member of Parliament for Dagoretti, in Nairobi. They are reportedly being held in incommunicado detention, without charge, and fears were expressed that they may be subjected to torture or ill-treatment. 102. On 28 October 1990, the Kenyan Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Mr. Keigi, Mr. Kinuthia, Mr. Kariuki and Mr. Kamuyu had been arraigned before the courts in Nairobi and that they have legal representation. Their case will be mentioned in court on 2 November 1990. It was a lie that they were held in incommunicado detention. They have been charged before the principal magistrate on 19 October 1990. The charges against them were criminal and not political. Those who saw them in court noticed no signs of torture or ill-treatment. Kuwait Urgent appeals 103. On 2 March 1990 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Kuwait concerning ten members of the Kuwaiti Shi'a community who were arrested on 14 and 18 February 1990 and were believed to be held at Amn Al-Dawla prison, in Al-Kuwait. Their names were: Hassan Habib Al-Salman, Saleh Jawhar, Kadhim Abd Al-Hussain, Jawad Al-Attar, Sayyid Jalil Tabataba'i, Sayyid Ali Tabataba'i (arrested on 14 February 1990 following raids and searches on their homes), Sayyid Taleb Abd Al-Majid Al-Kadhimi, Adel Dashti, Sayyid Mustafa Al-Mazidi and Sayyid Anwar Al-Mazidi (arrested on 18 February 1990). Most of them had been detained in 1989 following bomb explosions in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in July 1989, and the execution of 16 Kuwaiti pilgrims in Saudi Arabia on 21 September 1989. Fears have been expressed that these persons may be tortured during interrogation, following reports alleging that other members of the kuwaiti Shi'a community recently held in the same prison were tortured during interrogation by the State Security Intelligence. Letters 104. On 6 June 1990 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Kuwait transmitting information according to which, following the alleged involvement by Kuwaiti Shi'a pilgrims in bomb attacks which occurred in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 10 and 17 July 1989, and the subsequent execution of 16 Kuwaiti nationals in Saudi Arabia, several members of the Shi'a community were arrested in Kuwait and were allegedly tortured. The cases of the following individuals were reported: Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Abbas al-Musawi (also known as al-Muhri), the Imam of the Imam Ali Mosque in the al-Umairiya district of al-Kuwait city. He was arrested on 22 September 1989 on suspicion of planning the bomb attacks in Mecca and was held until 13 February 1990, reportedly without charge or trial, at the Amn al-Dawla prison in Kuwait, and later at the Kuwait Central Prison. It was alleged that he had been tortured during interrogation by the State Security Intelligence. The alleged torture included beatings and electric shock treatment. It was further alleged that one of the prison guards had trod on his neck and banged his head against a wall after he refused to sign a "confession".