E/CN.4/1991/17 page 81 regained his senses the torture resumed. He witnessed others having their head submerged in a bucket of water while being hanged upside down. He received no food. He was constantly naked and blindfolded, had cold water poured on him and then placed before an air conditioner. He later found out that the reason for his arrest and interrogation was the murder of a navy officer who he had known since childhood. After a while he was transferred by CAPCOM soldiers to the Bicutan Camp where torture allegedly continued. He was accused of being a leading NPA commander, and was beaten and kicked by every passing soldier. He was threatened with death by being skinned unless he confessed and gave his friends' names. After two days, thanks to the intervention of a Congressman, he was sent back to police custody (WPD) and then to the City Gaol. He was charged with robbery and homicide. After about five months his case was dismissed and he was released. 259. As mentioned in the introduction, the Special Rapporteur visited four prisons or detention centres, including one city gaol (Pasay), two military detention facilities (Camp Crame in Quezon city and Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan) - all three in the metropolitan area of the capital Manila - and one provincial penitentiary (the Detention and Rehabilitation Centre of Cebu Province). Most of the detainees interviewed by the Special Rapporteur were held for offences connected with their alleged activity for the NPA, and pending their trial. Their torture allegations related, without exception, to the period of arrest and interrogation. No complaints were made concerning present detention conditions, except for the insufficient quantity of food. Visits by lawyers, doctors and family members seem to be held on a regular basis. In the PC-INP detention facility in Camp Crame (which according to some non-governmental organizations is a "show piece" for visitors and should therefore not be considered as a typical, or representative case), the Special Rapporteur noted that most of the detainees, both males and females, with whom he had a sort of a round-table conversation, did not complain of having been tortured. Generally speaking detainees at the Cebu Provincial prison described torture methods to which they had allegedly been subjected as consisting principally of severe beating with various objects, and altogether less "sophisticated" or elaborate than in the other detention centres visited. No use of methods such as "dry submarine", "watercure" or electric shocks was alleged. 260. The Special Rapporteur also heard statements by four persons whose case he had submitted earlier to the Philippines Government. Two had already been released, but only one of them, Cleotilde Binabaye, accepted that her name be revealed. The other two, Joven Lim and Isidro de Lima, are still in detention. The cases of Cleotilde Binabaye and Joven Lim were transmitted to the Government by an urgent appeal dated 12 September 1989 (see document E/CN.4/1990/17, para. 127). Cleotilde Binabaye was released on bail shortly before she was interviewed by the Special Rapporteur. She told the Special Rapporteur that she had been arrested without a warrant and accused of membership in the NPA. She denied the accusation and said she had been active in a legal workers' organization. She alleged having been maltreated while being held for interrogation in Fort Bonifacio Camp and in Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan. Joven Lim was interviewed, together with other detainees, at the PC-INP gaol, Camp Bagong Diwa, Bicutan. He told the Special Rapporteur about the circumstances of his arrest, in July 1989, in Manila and his alleged torture in the CAPCOM headquarters. Isidro de Lima's case was brought to the Government's attention by letter dated 6 June 1990, (see para. 134). De Lima is still detained at the Pasay City gaol. His statement gave further details