E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 16 habían violado los derechos humanos de los dirigentes sindicales y trabajadores de base, situación que había sido reconocida por ellos mismos. Todos, excepto cuatro que enfrentaban cargos ante la justicia ordinaria, fueron liberados a principios de mayo. 62. El segundo llamamiento urgente fue enviado el 29 de septiembre de 1995 en favor de las siguientes personas: David Herrera, Vicente Vigabriel, Cancio Nina Ramírez, Marcial Alave, Osvaldo Mamani, Nemesio Montaño, José Claros, Fausto Montaño, Anselmo Cerezo, José Meneses Vigamonte, René Ramírez y Martín Villamontes. Según se informó, estos campesinos fueron detenidos entre el 19 y el 21 de septiembre de 1995 en el marco de un operativo policial dirigido a erradicar cultivos de hoja de coca en la región de Chapare, Cochabamba. Miembros de organizaciones no gubernamentales habrían visitado a algunos de los detenidos, quienes habrían manifestado haber sido golpeados, amenazados y sometidos a presiones en el curso de interrogatorios. Brazil Information received from the Government with respect to cases included in previous reports 63. On 2 December 1994 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of persons allegedly detained and ill-treated during the course of an anti-drug operation by soldiers in the favela Borel, Rio de Janeiro, between 25 and 28 November 1994. By letter dated 14 December 1994 the Government replied that the Ministry of the Army had set up an inquiry to establish the facts of the case. If the facts alleged proved true, the perpetrators would be punished. Bulgaria Information transmitted to the Government 64. By letter dated 11 April 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information on the cases of torture described in the following paragraphs. 65. Zahari Aleksandrov Stefanov, an ethnic Turk married to a Rom, was reportedly arrested and beaten by three police officers at the railway station in Dubovo on 3 June 1993 and beaten again during interrogation at the mayor’s office, as a result of which he suffered severe swelling of his feet. He was allegedly beaten all over his body with fists and wooden sticks while being taken to his home and to other homes in Dubovo to identify items he was suspected of stealing. He was eventually brought to the regional police station in Kazanluk, where he died on 5 June. Press accounts indicated that he had committed suicide by jumping from a third-floor room where he was being interrogated, but his family were not provided with a death certificate and were told that no autopsy report existed. The local prosecutor had not completed his investigation of the death within the statutorily required six-month period. 66. Kolyo Petro Iliev (aged 11), Petar Yordanov Khristov (aged 14), Zhivka Velikova Dimitrova (female), Liliana Dimitrova Todorova (female),