E/CN.4/1994/31 page 41 178. The Special Rapporteur was also informed of the cases referred to below, which reportedly occurred in Barrancabermeja, department of Santander. 179. Armando Gómez, was arrested on 18 April 1993 while riding a motorcycle near the Departmental Inspectorate of El Llanito in the municipality of Barrancabermeja by members of the armed forces. He was taken to a nearby farm where, while being interrogated, he was reportedly beaten and his head submerged several times in a basin of water to the point where he was close to drowning. He was then taken together with another 19-year-old who was also under arrest, Dimas Benavides, to the Nueva Granada Battalion where electric shocks were reportedly applied to their testicles, their necks and their feet while they were being beaten. They were released on 20 April. 180. Miguel Angel Duque Valencia was arrested on 30 April 1993 by 10 plainclothed men who took him to the Nueva Granada Battalion where he was subjected to such torture as suffocation, beatings and kicks in various parts of his body. 181. José Manuel Rodríguez Sampayo was arrested on 1 May 1993 by a group of plain-clothed men who took him to the Nueva Granada Battalion, where he was subjected to suffocation and beatings all over his body to the point where he lost consciousness. Before being turned over to the government procurator’s office he was forced to sign a declaration stating that he had been well treated. 182. José Antonio López was arrested on 3 May 1993 by plainclothed men. He was reportedly taken to the Nueva Granada Battalion and led blindfolded through some of the north-eastern districts. In one of these districts they made him force open a door with his head. They then took him to a swamp where they repeatedly submerged his head in water, almost drowning him, and from there back to the Nueva Granada Battalion where it was reported that they submerged his head in water again, applied electric shocks to his testicles and burnt him with cigarettes. 183. Orlando Noguera was arrested on 3 May 1993 by plainclothed men who bound his hands, feet and waist with barbed wire. They took him to the Nueva Granada Battalion where they poured acid into his stomach, producing ulcers. Still tied up, they took him to the north-eastern districts where they filled his mouth with mud, after which they took him to a marsh and repeatedly submerged his head in water for two hours. They then took him back to the Battalion where they reportedly trod on his testicles with boots, applied electric shocks to them, and stuck pointed sticks up his nose. They also reportedly kicked him in the ears, impairing his hearing. 184. Yofre Cervantes Corzo was arrested on 3 May 1993 by plainclothed men. He was detained in the Nueva Granada Battalion for 32 hours during which he was subjected to rifle blows and electric shocks to his testicles, and his head was repeatedly submerged in water. 185. Orlando Rueda Arguello was arrested by troops from the Luciano D’Elhuyart Battalion on 13 March 1993 at a military post near San Vicente de Chucurí. He was handed over to the San Vicente de Chucurí police who reportedly subjected