E/CN.4/1991/17 page 15 physical torture. Mrs. Cuello Villamil's lawyer reported her death to the Seventh Court as having occurred in Caucasia, Antioquia. However, the Court has not been able to provide evidence of her death. 49. On 6 June 1990, the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Colombia transmitting information relating to the following cases of torture which allegedly occurred between 1989 and March 1990. (a) Emiro Bustamante, aged 22, arrested on transferred to Sanbenito Prison, Sucre. Members the police commander allegedly beat him, covered strung him up by the hands, which were tied with 10 February 1989 and of the Sanbenito police and his face up with a towel and a nylon rope; (b) Orlando Chamorro Medrano, aged 30, arrested on 16 February 1989 by members of DAS and Battalion No. 5 in Corozal. They allegedly tortured him in his house, in the presence of his family. The chief of DAS allegedly hit, kicked and punched him; and then they bashed his head against a tree; (c) Victor Julio Palacios Martinez, aged 29, arrested on 25 May 1989 by members of the Anti-Guerrilla Army. A captain whose name has been transmitted to the Government and two members of the Rifles Battalion are said to have tortured him for about one and a half hours. They grabbed him by the hair and beat him on the head with the handle of a knife and the butt of a rifle; (d) Maximiliano Sanchez Mejia, aged 27, arrested on 17 June 1989 by members of the Infantry Battalion who allegedly tortured him for over 50 hours by kicking him and threatening him with electric shocks and death; (e) Maria Elizabeth Suarez Giraldo, arrested on 2 March 1990 by members of DAS and the Third Infantry Brigade in Cali. She was transferred to the Third Brigade barracks and taken on 6 March to a detention centre where she is still being held. During her detention, she was allegedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including being deprived of food and water, receiving death threats against herself and her seven-year-old daughter and being beaten, forced to stand for 8 or 10 hours and jabbed in the chest with pins. She was also allegedly raped by two men. 50. In a letter dated 6 December 1990, the Government provided information on the case of Victor Julio Palacios Martinez. According to the information, there were no complaints of the alleged torture of this person until 3 November 1990. Officials from the Attorney-General's Office nevertheless visited the premises of the Rifles Battalion, where they found no evidence leading to the conclusion that this person was arrested by military personnel. The captain whose name was communicated to the Government as the alleged torturer of Mr. Palacios Martinez is not on duty with the Battalion and has never been listed as one of its active members. 51. On 19 November 1990, the Government of Colombia provided the Special Rapporteur with information on three of the above-mentioned persons. In the cases of Emiro Bustamante and Orlando Chamorro Medrano, it stated that the Regional Prosecutor of the capital of Sucre informed the Prosecutors' Office for the Defence of Human Rights, in a telegram of 25 August, that it had so far not received any complaint of the alleged torture of these persons. In the case of Maximiliano Sanchez Mejia, it was stated that a communication sent by the Prosecutor's Office for the Defence of Human Rights