E/CN.4/1991/17 page 9 the accused (persons) including Khoka Mia. Since Khoka Mia was suffering from high blood pressure he was not feeling well" and was sent to a hospital for treatment. He died on 9 June 1990. Consequently five police officers and eight police officials were immediately suspended from service and a judicial inquiry has been set up. The case is still under investigation. Wazed Ali was arrested on charges of robbery and during the time of his arrest the public got very emotional and violence took place which had caused injury to him. He later died in hospital. Brazil Letters and Government replies 29. On 6 June 1990 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Brazil transmitting information alleging that the situation in many prisons throughout the country continued to be a cause for concern. Police and prison personnel brutality against detainees was said to be widespread. Many cases of severe beatings were reported. Conditions prevailing in the prisons, and in particular sanitary conditions, were said to be extremely poor. The following prisons and detention places were mentioned as examples: Agua Santa, Talavera Bruce, Leblon, Evaristo de Morais, Casa de Detendafo, Ataliba Nogueira, Taubate, and Franco da Rocha; the Sa*o Bernardo gaol in Campinas, the detention centre Penitenciaria de Americano in the Santa Isabel do Para Municipality, State of Para; the Campo Grande Maximum Security Centre in Mato Grosso do Sul, and the lock-up in the Departamento Estadual de Investigacao Criminal (DEIC). In addition to the aforementioned, the following cases of alleged torture were reported to have occurred in recent months: (a) Several persons, including Manuel Nobrega da Silva, Francisco Silvestre Bezerra, Elizete Bezerra da Silva and Eurides Bezerra da Silva, were allegedly tortured on 6 October 1989 by 12 military police from the State capital Rio Branco in connection with a search operation for two fugitives in the Manuel Urbano region of the Acre State in north-western Brazil; (b) Reginaldo Rodrigues Pereira was reportedly taken out of detention at Campo Grande Prison on 4 November 1989 and subjected to electric shocks at the local police station. 30. On 27 November 1990 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Brazil transmitting several cases of alleged torture and ill-treatment which had been brought to his attention. Most of these cases occurred in Campo Grande, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, and the agents said to be responsible were policemen, including Federal Police agents and military police. The cases of the following individuals were transmitted to the Government: Jocimar Borjes da Silva, arrested on 20 June 1990; Alex Ferreira; Alfredo Nogueira da Silva Dilho, arrested on 17 May 1990; Adilson Rodrigues Lemes, Jose dos Santos Oliveira, Emerson Gabriel Santos and Marcelo Machado Nascimento, all arrested in March 1990; Paulo Sebasti&b da Silva and Josias Chaustz da Silva, both arrested on 15 May 1990; Manoel da Silveira Araujo arrested on 4 May 1990; Adelino Souto Maior, arrested on 5 June 1990; Ariolino de Assis Neto, arrested on 24 June 1990; Eribaldo de Araujo Menezes and Paulo Roberto dos Santos, both prisoners, allegedly tortured on 4 April 1990; and Jose Carlos Luiz da Silva, arrested on 10 September 1990.