E/CN.4/2002/94 page 18 Lebanon, on charges of illegal entry. In reply to the joint urgent appeal sent together with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir, and the Special Rapporteur on torture, Sir Nigel S. Rodley, the Government of Lebanon, in a letter dated 7 May 2001, set out the details of the situation of the Sudanese asylum-seekers who had allegedly entered the country illegally and who were said to have been returned to their countries of origin, including Trapol Ibraham Lako. In a letter dated 26 November 2001, it also reported that there is no law in Lebanon relating to guarantees applicable to illegal migrants. The Government stated that, under the Law of 10 July 1963 concerning the entry, residence and exit of aliens, all aliens must enter the country through a public security checkpoint, bearing proper documents, or face a fine and deportation. The Government of Lebanon reiterated that the allegations of ill-treatment and torture of Sudanese nationals referred to in the urgent appeal were groundless. Islamic Republic of Iran 67. On 27 June 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint appeal together with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir, and the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Maurice Copithorne. The rapporteurs had received information indicating that a 14-year-old minor of Pakistani nationality had been sentenced to death by an Iranian court. They had also received information concerning the alleged execution of an 18-year-old boy, Mehrdad Yusefi, on 29 May 2001, reportedly for an offence he had committed when he was 16 years old. Tonga 68. On 30 November 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Tonga in relation to the situation of some 600 Chinese migrants who had allegedly been subjected to racist and violent acts and whose property was said to have been destroyed by Tongan nationals. It was also reported that Tonga’s Immigration Office had requested that the Chinese families should leave Tonga for their own safety and protection. 69. By a letter dated 4 January 2002, the Government of Tonga replied to the Special Rapporteur that the country’s migration policies applied irrespective of race, colour, descent or ethnic origin, adding that such policies applied equally to Chinese and to other nationalities. Turkey 70. On 27 July 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Turkey, together with the Special Rapporteur on torture and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, after receiving information on the situation reportedly experienced by 7 persons of African origin who were said to have been detained in a police round-up together with 200 other immigrants. The seven persons were reported to have been held for a week in the police headquarters in Istanbul, to have remained there in poor conditions and to have been subjected to beatings and rapes. It is alleged that while in detention they were made to sign documents written in Turkish acknowledging that they had entered Turkey from Greece. In addition, police were said to have refused access to a lawyer who tried to visit the detainees to obtain