E/CN.4/1991/17 page 10 31. On 7 December 1990 the Government of Brazil provided the Special Rapporteur with information on the above-mentioned cases, as well as on one of the cases transmitted to it by letter dated 6 June 1990, i.e. that of Reginaldo Rodrigues Pereira. It was reported that an inquiry had been opened within the "Council for the Defence of the Rights of the Human Person" GDDPH, which is the Federal Government's body in charge of promoting and protecting human rights in Brazil. In reply to a request for information from the CDDPH the Secretary of Public Security of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul reported on 21 November 1989 that it had asked the competent body at the State Police to investigate the facts. Similar inquiries were reportedly opened into the cases of Jocimar Borges da Silva, Alfredo Nogueira da Silva Filho, Adilson Rodriguez Lemes, Jose dos Santos Oliveira, Emerson Gabriel Santos, Marcelo Machado Nascimento, Paulo Sebastiab da Silva, Josias Chaustz da Silva, Adelino Souto Maior and Ariolino de Assis Neto. In all the above cases the competent authorities were asked to provide information on the torture allegations. In some of the cases it was affirmed that the competent authorities had already taken measures to investigate the allegations. It was further reported that, as regards all the remaining cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur, the CDDPH was in the process of establishing inquiries into these cases. Burkina Faso Urgent appeals and Government replies 32. On 21 June 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Burkina Faso transmitting information concerning several leaders and members of student organizations, including Seni Konanda, Sie Souleymane Coulibaly, a medical student named Dabo, Jean-Clement Bagre and 12 other students whose names have not been made available. The first three were arrested on 18 May 1990 and the fourth on 30 May 1990. All were allegedly held incommunicado following student protests. It was reported that persons arrested during the preceding year for political reasons and held incommunicado were tortured or subjected to ill-treatment. 33. On 11 July 1990, the Government of Burkina Faso informed the Special Rapporteur that no students were in prison or being held incommunicado following the student strike. 34. On 9 November 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Burkina Faso referring to his telegram of 21 June 1990 and to the Government's reply of 11 July 1990 and adding further information he had received, namely, that the medical student named Dabo (his first name is Boukary) allegedly died in detention as a result of ill-treatment. It was also reported that Guillaume Sessouma, a lecturer at the University of Ouagadougou, died as a result of the torture to which he was subjected in detention one week after his arrest in late December 1989. According to the same source, the above-mentioned students and other students arrested after the student demonstrations of May 1990 were allegedly still being held incommunicado.