E/CN.4/1991/17 page 59 were acquitted. "The competent authorities have thoroughly examined the situation of the above-mentioned persons and have established that they have not been subjected to any form of ill-treatment"; (c) With regard to the cases transmitted by letter dated 14 November 1989 (para. 161) the Government provided the following information: "Mr. Ahmet Cantay was sought since 1986, for affiliation to and participation in the activities of an outlawed organization. He has been caught on 18 September 1989 in Kapikule border gate while leaving Turkey. He has been taken into custody and transferred to Ankara Security Department. After the completion of the preliminary investigation, he has been brought before the Ankara State Security Court where the Public Prosecutor decided to release Mr. Ahmet Cantay, pending trial. Mr. Ahmet Cantay has been taken through a medical examination by the Forensic Medicine Institute, as the result of which no indication of ill-treatment has been found. As regards the four other persons mentioned in the Special Rapporteur's letter, more detailed information is needed on the identity of persons involved as well as on the place where the alleged cases of mistreatment have occurred, in order to carry out the necessary investigation"; (d) As regard the case of Messrs. Mehmet Yalcinkaya and HUsnii Eroglu, referred to in the same letter (para. 161), the Government provided a copy of a letter it sent to Mr. A. Wako, Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions, who had also inquired about these persons. Relevant excerpts of that letter read as follows: "Messrs. Mehmet Yalcinkaya and Husnii Eroglu are two of the inmates who tried to escape from the Eskisehir Prison by excavating two tunnels 3-4 metres below ground of 30-40 metres length. The authorities have discovered these tunnels on 22 June 1989 and decided to temporarily transfer the inmates to other prisons. On 29 June 1989, the inmates in question, including Messrs. Mehmet Yalcinkaya and Husnii Eroglu, launched a hunger strike .... The prisoners continued the hunger strike at the prison to which they had been moved. It is regrettable that two losses of life (Mehmet Yalginkaya and Husnti Eroglu) occurred during this hunger strike which lasted 52 days. It is alleged that the prisoners in question had been transported to the Aydin Prison under harsh conditions. The doctors examined the said persons prior to their departure from the Eskisehir Prison and established that they had no health problem which could prevent them from being transported to the Aydin Prison.