E/CN.4/1991/17 page 12 On the basis of the foregoing, it may be concluded that the complaints to the Special Rapporteur that persons arrested by Carabineros were allegedly subjected to torture are unfounded and untrue and the information compiled contains no sound arguments to back up the allegations by the persons concerned. There are also documents written and signed by these persons stating that they have no charges to bring against Carabineros and its members. The Chilean Criminal Investigation Department provided information on the cases of Cristobal Modesto Carrasco Onate, Mirko Zapkovic Orrego and Victor Hugo Pavez Ramirez, Luis Carlos Godoy Cortes, Oscar Patricio Molina Ossandon, Hector Alfredo Zuniga Suarez and Luis Hernan Bravo Ordonez. In all these cases, the Chilean Criminal Investigation Department acted in accordance with orders by the competent courts and on the basis of the powers entrusted to it by the Carabineros Organization Act; its procedures are thus fully in keeping with the law. In addition, prisoners taken to Carabineros premises are given a medical examination to determine the state of their health. Their detention is recorded in the Public Register of Prisoners, which shows, inter alia, their identity and the reason for, and order authorizing, their detention. When they come back and are placed at the disposal of the courts, they are given another medical examination." China Urgent appeals and Government replies 38. On 17 January 1990 the Government of China provided the Special Rapporteur with a reply to an urgent appeal dated 29 November 1989 concerning Tseten Norgye (see document E/CN.4/1990/17, para. 4 4 ) . It stated that, after receiving the communication from the Special Rapporteur, the department concerned in China conducted an investigation and found that no person by the name of Tseten Norgye was among the prisoners. 39. On 18 May 1990 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of China concerning further information he received with regard to Tseten Norgye. According to that information the Chinese Ambassador to the United States of America addressed a letter to United States Senator Patrick Leahy, informing him that Tseten Norgye had been detained on an unspecified date in 1989 for investigation as a major suspect and that he was formally charged on 10 November 1989 and was at present awaiting trial. It was further reported on 28 March 1990 that Tseten Norgye was being held in solitary confinement in the military prison below Chokpori, and that he was now totally blind, allegedly as a result of beatings during interrogation. 40. On 9 July 1990 the Government of China informed the Special Rapporteur that "owing to different translation versions of Tibetan names, Tseten Norgye was translated into Danzeng Nuojie. Besides, according to the communication transmitted by the Rapporteur, he was 45 years old and was from Lhasa. Since this was at variance with the fact, attempt to locate him failed. Through the efforts of various quarters, it has been verified that Tseten Norgye is Cidan Luojie, 48 years of age, from Xigaze region of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.