E/CN.4/2001/66 page 46 Franco da Rocha detention centre is said to have indicated to the public prosecutors that, because of the large number of minors detained under his responsibility, he could not control all his subordinates (see also E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2). 189. On 7 December 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Daniel de Brito Montenegro, an inmate at Anibal Bruno prison in Recife, Pernambuco, who had reportedly been suffering from HIV for more than 10 years. He was said to have been transferred by a judicial order to Anibal Bruno prison in August 1999 in order to receive HIV treatment there. In June 2000, he had reportedly developed lesions on the left side of his face. He is said to be suffering from back pain, leg ache, he reportedly urinates blood and is said to have lost weight. At the time of the Special Rapporteur’s visit, on 9 September 2000, he had still not been taken to hospital for an examination testing viral quantity required in order for him to receive medication for AIDS. Some days after the Special Rapporteur’s visit, he was reportedly sent to the Correia Picanço Hospital but did not receive the examination testing the viral quantity, as there was no doctor available in that hospital. He is still reportedly not receiving any treatment for the virus. 190. On 15 December 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Dona Iraci Oliveira dos Santos and her 16-year-old son (whose name is known to the Special Rapporteur and whom the Special Rapporteur met during his mission to Brazil in September 2000). Her son had reportedly been arrested by the civil police in the town of Xinguara in Pará state on 7 June 1999. During the arrest, the police officers allegedly kicked and punched him, and threatened to kill him. On 9 June, he was released on the condition that his family would not register a complaint. As a result, he is said to have suffered severe mental and physical trauma. Since an investigation was opened into the case, Dona Iraci Oliveira dos Santos and her son are said to have been harassed and intimidated by the two police officers under investigation. The Superintendent of the civil police in the south of Pará and the Chief of the Xinguara civil police, who had been accused of complicity in the case, as well as the two officers under investigation, were reportedly transferred out of the Xinguara region. On 6 December 2000, Dona Iraci Oliveira dos Santos and her son arrived in Belém, where he is receiving specialist medical treatment for his psychological trauma. As they were leaving their hotel, they reportedly saw one of the police officers accused of torturing him in a van which was following them. Furthermore, one of the accused police officers had reportedly not been suspended from service, but had been transferred from Xinguara police district to Belém, where he is said to be working at the Delegacia de Menores, a police station dealing with juveniles. Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 191. Por carta de fecha 23 de diciembre de 2000, el Gobierno informó respecto al caso transmitido en noviembre de 1999 sobre tortura en la sección Céu Azul de la penitenciaría Raimundo Vidal Pessoa en Manaos, Amazonas (E/CN.4/2000/9, párr. 138), afirmando que las dos principales causas de motines deberán ser eliminadas a corto plazo. La primera, concerniente a la disputa entre presos condenados y provisionales, ha sido eliminada mediante el traslado de 196 presos condenados al Complejo Penitenciario Anísio Jobim desde el segundo semestre de 1999. Respecto al problema del número excedente de presos en dicha Penitenciaría,