E/CN.4/2000/9 page 33 each woman to perform oral sex on them with the intention of showing them "what they were missing by not having sex with men". They were transferred to several detention centres and eventually moved to a prison where they remained incarcerated for 11 months. The women agreed to being examined by the state's Legal Medical Office, which corroborated the physical injuries they had sustained as a result of the police beatings. Following a public hearing in 1997, a judge ordered their release on a temporary basis. Despite the evidence of police misconduct, they have reportedly been awaiting a review of their case by the Supreme Court of Brezil for two years. They have insistently and unsuccessfully petitioned the Ministry of Justice for a full and impartial investigation into the wrongful charges, as well as into the police brutality and torture. 146. Deilson Santana, a suspect in the brutal killing of an 18-year-old student in an affluent neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, was allegedly tortured by police in May 1998. 147. Elcio Oliviera Lima reportedly died of heat prostration in an overcrowded local jail in the Santa Cruz neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro in February 1998. A police officer on duty reportedly told the press that the temperature in the jail cells routinely reached 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Guards also reported that there was a constant shortage of water in the jail and that Lima was detained with 13 other prisoners in a 4.5 foot by 9.5 foot cell with an official capacity of seven persons. 148. George de Assis and Guilherme Henrique were reportedly arrested on 8 June 1998 and taken to the Theft and Robbery police station in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where they were allegedly tortured. The authorities are reported to have claimed that they were transferred to the prison in Ribeirão das Neves and then released. Their families were reportedly informed by a police officer that they had died. 149. Edson Soares da Silva, a tetraplegic, is said to have died on 1 June 1997 after his state of health had progressively deteriorated during his period of detention. He had reportedly never been transferred to a public hospital. 150. Jorge Natale was reportedly arrested on 10 November 1998 and taken to the Theft and Robbery police station in Belo Horizonte for questioning about a break-in. He was allegedly taken to a sort of bathroom where he was stripped naked. Civil police officers, including the station chief, tied his arms and legs and hung him from a metal pole over a trestle. They then allegedly took a piece of rubber tied to a stick and beat him on the soles of his feet and on his head. They allegedly also applied electric shocks to his scrotum, buttocks, ribs, head, chest and arms. He reportedly made a deposition to the police ombudsman's office. 151. Claudio Orlando dos Santos, an AIDS activist from southern Brazil and President of the Florianópolis Association for the Defence of Homosexual Rights in Santa Catarina, was allegedly beaten up and verbally harassed by Florianópolis military police officers on 24 May 1994. He was reportedly beaten while distributing condoms to the travestites in Capoeiras neighbourhood, Florianópolis, on behalf of the Santa Catarina health authority. He was first harassed by a police officer and called from a public telephone the Captain of the Military Police, the Coordinator of Centro de Operações da Policia Militar (COPOM), to report what had happened. It is then reported that the military