E/CN.4/2001/66 page 47 deberá ser resuelto cuando el Estado de Amazonas termine la construcción de la Penitenciaría de Puraquequara, con capacidad para 520 presos, lo que se prevé para el mes de julio de 2000. El Relator Especial no está informado de si las dos medidas han sido puestas en práctica. 192. Por carta de 30 de junio de 2000, el Gobierno informó, respecto al caso transmitido en noviembre de 1999 sobre casos de tortura y ejecuciones sumarias en la penitenciaria Róger en Joào Pessoa, Paraíba el 24 de julio de 1997 (E/CN.4/1999/61, párr. 90), de que el Secretario de Ciudadanía y Justicia del Gobierno del Estado de Paraíba el mismo 24 de julio de 1997, solicitó la asignación de un jefe de policía para conducir la investigación policial correspondiente y un procurador de justicia para seguir sus trabajos. Asimismo, ordenó la instauración de una comisión de investigación compuesta por defensores de oficio, oficiales de la policía militar, procuradores del Estado y abogados con el cometido de apurar la mencionada denuncia. Observations 193. The Special Rapporteur appreciated the responses of the Government. The report on his visit to Brazil may be found in Addendum 2 to the present report. Bulgaria 194. By letter dated 5 October 2000, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information on the following individual cases. 195. Tsvetalin Perov, a 16-year-old Roma boy, was reportedly set on fire whilst in police detention in Vidin on 29 April 2000. He was allegedly arrested on 29 April 2000 on suspicion of burglary, taken to the Vidin district police headquarters and interrogated. He was later reportedly taken to the Sveta Petka hospital suffering from third degree burns to 15 per cent of his body. Official reports suggest that Tsvetalin Perov set fire to himself. However, on his arrival at the police station all his personal items had been confiscated in accordance with normal police procedures. It is alleged that the clothes he wore and the jacket used by a police officer to extinguish the fire have gone missing, thus making it difficult to determine the cause of the fire. This incident has reportedly been the subject of an investigation. 196. Stefka Madjarova was reportedly harassed and beaten on 17 January 1999 in Pleven. A police officer reportedly ordered her to follow him to a police station at the market, where she was beaten with a club. A complaint was reportedly lodged, including a medical report on Stefka Madjarova’s injuries. 197. On 22 July 1999, three Roma men, Atanas Assenov, Assen Assenov and Anton Assenov, were reportedly accused by a private security guard of stealing fruit. The guard is alleged to have shot at them while they were trying to escape and to have wounded Anton Assenov in the back of the head. When police arrived and called an ambulance, the emergency medical technicians reportedly refused to treat him. The police officers are alleged to have then taken the three Roma men to the Pavlinkeni regional police department, where they reportedly beat Atanas and Assen Assenov. Anton Assenov was reportedly left outside the police department in a horse cart for several hours, after which the police called another