E/CN.4/1991/17 page 87 (j) Disciplinary measures should be taken against the officers in command of places of detention where torture has been practised, irrespective of whether the person of the torturer can be identified. The Philippine Commission on Human Rights should be authorized to recommend such disciplinary measures to the competent authorities; (k) Officials who have violated the rules prohibiting unacknowledged detention or incommunicado detention should be severely disciplined. B. Follow-up to visits 275. By letters dated 10 August 1990, addressed to the Government of Peru, Guatemala, Honduras and Zaire, the Special Rapporteur requested those Governments to inform him of any measures they may have taken in pursuance of the recommendations made following his visits to their countries (see E/CN.4/1989/15, para. 187, E/CN.4/1990/17, paras. 216 and 254, and E/CN.4/1990/17/Add.l, para. 51, respectively). To date, only the Government of Zaire has sent its observations. By letter dated 1 December 1990 it informed the Special Rapporteur as follows: "During your visit to Zaire at the beginning of this year, you met a number of leading Zairian figures, including the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior, who informed you that Decree-Law No. 1/61 of 25 February 1961, which relates to State security measures and on the basis of which house arrest and internal banishment measures were taken against citizens, was being reconsidered with a view to its amendment or repeal. We take this oppportunity to inform you that the well-known Decree-Law has been repealed by Legal Ordinance No. 90-049 of 12 September 1990".