E/CN.4/2000/9 page 150 indicated that as soon as more details were available as a result of the CNDH inquiry, they would be made known. 753. On 29 July 1999, the Special Rapporteur forwarded an urgent appeal on behalf of the ecologists Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera García. According to the information received, they were arrested by soldiers on 2 May 1999 in Pizotta, Guerrero State, and were being held in Iguala prison, Guerrero State. According to the source, both were beaten by the soldiers and Montiel Flores was apparently in very poor condition after having been tortured with electric shocks to the genitals during his imprisonment. According to the information received, Montiel Flores had inflamed testicles and is in urgent need of medical treatment, treatment which the prison medical service is probably unable to provide. Both detainees had been made to confess that they were members of an armed opposition group and drug traffickers. They were reportedly forced to have their picture taken carrying arms and dressed as soldiers. 754. On 10 August 1999, the Special Rapporteur and the chairman/rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention forwarded a joint urgent appeal on behalf of Natividad and Victoriano Parra Florez who, with two more of their brothers, Jesús, aged 18, and Manuel, 16, were arrested on 28 July 1999 at their home in Mexcaltepec, municipality of Atoyac de Álvarez, by officers of the judicial police (a fifth brother Andrés was arrested some time afterwards). They were first taken to the judicial police academy in Atoyac de Álvarez and then to Tecpan prison in the municipality of Galanea, Guerrero State, where at the time they were still being held. Natividad and Victoriano Parra Florez were tortured while being conveyed to the judicial police academy. As a result, Natividad had blood in his urine and Victoriano had bruises all over his face and body. 755. On 16 November 1999, the Special Rapporteur forwarded an urgent appeal on behalf of Gloria Arenas Ajis, Felicitas Padilla Nava, Fernando Gatica Chino and Jacobo Silva Nogales who were reportedly arrested on 22 October 1999 on suspicion of having been members of the armed opposition group Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo Insurgente. Since then they have allegedly been kept incommunicado in Cefereso de Almoloya, the high-security prison in Almoloya, Mexico State. Moreover, it is alleged that on 25 October the First District Court of Toluca, Mexico State, officially reported that Jacobo Silva Nogales had injuries to various parts of his body and that the four detainees claimed to have been physically and psychologically tortured. Felicitas Padilla Nava's interrogators are said to have threatened that her children would be killed unless she gave them information. 756. On 7 December 1999, the Special Rapporteur forwarded an urgent appeal on behalf of Benito García and Celerino García. Both were reportedly beaten while in custody and were at risk of being beaten again, in particular because their lawyers had not been allowed to see them. Benito García had bruising after being severely beaten by the State judicial police (PJE) over a period of three days. Celerino García's condition was not known. Both were said to be in the custody of the office of the public prosecutor of Valle de San Quintín, Baja California State, after having been arrested on 29 November 1999. Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 757. By letter of 26 February 1998, the Government provided information concerning cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur by urgent appeal dated