E/CN.4/1995/34 page 131 prison. They were allegedly intercepted by security forces, locked in Port Sudan security headquarters cells and again tortured. Brigadier Mohammed al-Raya was said to have collapsed and suffered a deterioration in health and was being treated in Port Sudan hospital. 684. Sayed Omer Awad Abu Garja, a former employee of the forest administration, was arrested in June 1993 in Damazeen and allegedly subjected to torture. He was transferred to Wad Medani town on 15 July 1993 and taken to "ghost house" No. 114 facing the electricity administration buildings. His subsequent whereabouts were unknown, although Wad Medani authorities reportedly said that he had been transferred to Khartoum prison. It was feared that he had been tortured to death. 685. Camillo Odongi Loyuk, a former soldier working as a senior civil servant, was reportedly arrested in Khartoum on 1 August 1992. In December 1992 he was allegedly tied spread-eagled to the bars of a window, a noose tied to tighten as he moved was bound around his testicles, and he was then beaten. He allegedly died as a result of the torture. 686. Farouk Ali Zakaria and Abdel Hamid Ali Basheir, both members of the Communist Party, and Yousif Abdalla, a veterinarian, were arrested in December 1992 by the security forces and were reportedly held incommunicado in a "ghost house". They were allegedly being subjected to continuous torture. 687. The Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received further reports according to which flogging was sometimes imposed judicially as punishment pursuant to criminal conviction. On 2 September 1993, 10 men were arrested by security officers at a party at the home of Kamal Mekki Medani in Wad Medani. In addition to Kamal Mekki Medani, those arrested were said to include Mamoun Mekki Medani; Al-Haj Mekki Medani; Hisham El Kareb; Gaafar Mohamed Ahmed; Mohamad al-Amin Gaith; Amir al-Tilib; Salah Disougi; Abdin Miheisi; and Kamal Ahmad Saleh. The raid was allegedly undertaken for political reasons, as some of those gathered were related to Amin Mekki Medani, an exiled senior member of the National Democratic Alliance. The detainees were reportedly taken to a security house, whereupon Kamal Mekki Medani was beaten. They were initially accused of holding a political gathering, but were ultimately charged with consumption of alcohol. They were convicted and sentenced at a public court hearing on 11 September 1993 to 40 lashes. On 2 November 1993 the sentences were carried out against all except for Hisham el Kareb and Abdin Miheisi, after medical reports were submitted indicating that the two men were not physically fit to withstand the flogging. Kamal Mekki Medani was allegedly flogged despite medical evidence that he suffered from hypertension and diabetes. 688. The Special Rapporteur also informed the Government that he had received reports that military intelligence officials, soldiers, and members of the People’s Defence Force frequently tortured prisoners arrested during operations in the Nuba mountains and southern Sudan. Among the methods of torture reported were severe beatings, water and food deprivation, forcing prisoners to watch the executions of other prisoners, tying a bag of chili powder over the head, rubbing chili peppers into wounds, and flogging a victim hanging for a period of days from a wooden pole with the elbows tied to the knees. In Juba, a building near the military headquarters known as the "White