E/CN.4/1993/26 page 70 300. I'taf Daoud Hussein I'elyan had been kept in an isolation cell at the Tel Mund central prison for 3½ years. She had also been denied the surgical operation that she needed since her nose was broken under torture five years ago. It was also reported that to protest her situation she had initiated a hunger strike and, as a consequence, her health had further deteriorated. (16 September 1992). 301. Ahmad Suleiman Musa Qatamesh was arrested on 1 September 1992 and said to be held in Ramallah prison. According to his lawyer, who was allowed to see him on 23 September 1992, Mr. Qatamesh was suffering from severe stomach and head pains, difficulties in breathing and repeated loss of consciousness caused by torture and ill-treatment including extreme sleep deprivation, position abuse, and hooding and suffocation during interrogation. It was also reported that he had been denied medical care. (30 September 1992) Kenya Information transmitted to the Government 302. By letter dated 12 November 1992 the Special Rapporteur communicated to the Government that he had received information according to which Ms. Wangari Maathai, Chairperson of the environmental group Green Belt Movement, and three other women hunger-strikers campaigning for the release of political prisoners, were severely beaten by riot police in Nairobi's Uhuru (Independence) Park on 3 March 1992. They were reportedly clubbed unconscious and had to be taken to hospital. Other women hunger-strikers were injured at the same time by clubs or were affected by tear-gas thrown into a tent they were using. 303. In addition, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government on 22 July 1992 concerning Mr. Rumba Kinuthia, a lawyer said to be awaiting trial on treason charges and held in custody at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. It was alleged that Mr. Kinuthia was admitted to the hospital suffering from high blood pressure, severe headaches, nosebleed and depression and coughing blood originating from the torture he suffered shortly after his arrest in 1990. Despite his condition, it was alleged that Mr. Kinuthia was chained to his bed 23 hours a day; that his doctor was denied access to him on 8 July 1992, in contravention of a court order of 15 April 1992; that his family had also been denied access to him; and that hospital staff attending him had been harassed by the armed prison warders guarding him. Mr. Kinuthia was one of several persons on behalf of whom an urgent appeal was made on 23 October 1990. In its reply the Government affirmed that the charges against those persons, including Mr. Kinuthia, were criminal and not political, and added that those who saw these persons in court noticed no signs of torture or ill-treatment (E/CN.4/1991/17, paras. 101-102).