E/CN.4/1994/31 page 44 On the following day he was transferred to the detention centre of the Technical Investigation Department situated at Calle 100 and Aldabó. Fears were expressed that he might be ill-treated or tortured while in detention. 199. On 12 March 1993 the Government replied that E. Sánchez Santa Cruz had committed a breach of the peace during which he expressed angry and violent criticism of the country’s political and social system and insulted citizens and neighbours who argued with him. This resulted in a fracas during which blows and insults were exchanged, ending in intervention by the forces of law and order. E. Sánchez Santa Cruz was taken to the Carlos J. Finlay military hospital; as this was the closest hospital to his home it is clear that there was no intention whatsoever to conceal the incident and its consequences. At the hospital he was given the necessary treatment; his injuries were described as slight, consisting of simple small bruises caused by punches, almost all of them from women. Subsequently he was taken to the Investigations Department situated at Calle 100 and Aldabó, where he was charged with disturbing the peace and, within the period specified in Cuba’s criminal procedure law, was provisionally released on bail. At no time was he kept incommunicado, and his relatives were aware of his detention and the place thereof. With regard to the slight injuries suffered by E. Sánchez Santa Cruz, they quite clearly resulted from his altercation with his neighbours and were certainly not caused by the police. Dominican Republic Information transmitted to the Government 200. By letter dated 26 August 1993 the Special Rapporteur informed the Government of reports he had received concerning an incident on 21 July 1993 when the police tried to eject several peasant families from some land which had been allocated to them in the area of Mate de Palma, Guerra, during the 1960s. One of the peasants, Juan Díaz Ulerio, was reported to have been severely beaten. Moreover, a merchant who had accompanied the police and laid claim to the land, poured petrol over Díaz Ulerio and, in the presence of the police, set fire to him. As a result, he was admitted to hospital with third degree burns. 201. By the same letter the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of the case of Felipe de Jesús Medrano García, transmitted in 1992, regarding which no reply had been received. Ecuador Information transmitted to the Government 202. By letter dated 26 August 1993 the Special Rapporteur drew the attention of the Government to the cases of the following six persons reported to have been tortured in establishments of the Office for the Investigation of Offences (OID). 203. William Fausto Andrade was arrested on 6 June 1992 at his home in the parish of El Eno, Sucumbios province, region of Amazonas, by two uniformed policemen and four plainclothed individuals who accused him of being involved