E/CN.4/2000/9 page 11 of his arrest, who pronounced him inebriated and diagnosed the injuries reidentified on 21 March, as well as additional symptoms. The court ordered the case provisionally dismissed on 22 June 1998 because the person who had allegedly committed the offence of bodily harm could not be identified. 29. In the same letter dated 26 October 1999, the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government the case of Luis Cufré, aged 14, who was reportedly arrested and thrown to the pavement in the path of an oncoming truck on 18 September 1995 in Plaza Constitución, Federal Capital, by police officers of the Mitre Division (see E/CN.4/1999/61, para. 45). In its letter dated 16 December 1998, the Government indicated that proceedings had been instituted in National Correctional Court No. 13, Office 79. Implicated in the proceedings were a corporal of Division No. 1 Mitre SS Railways and the driver of the truck, which belonged to a garbage collection company and which allegedly ran over the minor and another person, also a minor. The Government gave detailed information on the treatment provided for Luis Cufré and the severe injuries he sustained. The Street Children Division of the National Council for Minors and Families has been involved in the case, providing assistance in various areas from documentation to rehabilitation. The case is in pre-trial proceedings. Investigations of alleged irregularities in the initial handling of the case by the police are also being made. 30. In the same letter, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government that it has not responded to the information he sent it on 26 May 1997 according to which a number of detainees at the Córdoba remand centre were subjected to various forms of torture on 22 January 1996 following disturbances provoked by an escape attempt (see E/CN.4/1998/38/Add.1). In its letter of 16 December 1998, the Government provided information on that incident. It transmitted to the Special Rapporteur the reports of the Penitentiary Service, Córdoba province, and of the Penjuez Service, which investigated the incident. According to the reports, proceedings were initiated in the case but no one has been charged, either in the administrative or in the judicial courts, with the crime of torture or ill-treatment. The charges brought against three prison employees were for other causes. Information was given on the injuries suffered by the various detainees, their gravity and the medical treatment given. Medical treatment in the penitentiary centre had been deemed adequate by two forensic scientists and three defence lawyers. Evidence had been taken from over 100 persons, but it lacked consistency. Although the case was being processed by Federal Court No. 3 and Examining Court No. 12, both of Córdoba, the Government stated that the "case in question does not involve one of the forms of torture, since not a single employee of the Penitentiary Service in the entire province is suspected or accused of the crime of torture." As for the investigations carried out to clarify the circumstances surrounding the death of three of the detainees and, in the death of Luis Rogelio Martín, the possible implication of drug trafficking, that case has been transferred to the Federal Court for jurisdictional reasons. With respect to detainees Sánchez and Sarriá, despite numerous inquiries, autopsies and testimony, the specific events which led to their deaths have still not been definitively revealed. Australia Urgent appeals and replies received 31. On 6 December 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of a Libyan asylum-seeker, whose name is unknown to the Special