1 i 56. In accordance with rule 66 of the rules of procedure of the Committee, representatives of all the reporting States were invited to attend the meetings of the Committee when their reports were examined. All of the States parties whose reports were considered by the Committee sent representatives to participate in the examination of their respective reports. ; C c 1: 6 I 57. In accordance with the decision taken by the Committee at its fourth session, ~.1. country rapporteurs and alternate rapporteurs were designated by the Chairman in consultation with the members of the Committee and the secretariat, for each of the reports submitted by States parties and considered by the Committee at its seventh and eighth sessions. The list of the above-mentioned reports and the names of the country rapporteurs and their alternates for each of ~hem appear in annex IV to the present report. i 2 i J 58. In connection with its consideration of reports, the Committee also had before it the following documents: (a) Status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and reservations and declarations under the Convention (CAT/C/2/Rev.2)i (b) General guidelines regarding the form and contents of initial reports to be submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention, adopted by the Committee at its third session and revised at its sixth session (CATlC/4/Rev. 2). The following sections, arranged on a country-by-country basis according to the sequence followed by the Committee in its consideration of the reports, contain swrunaries based on the records of the meetings at which the reports were considered. More detailed information is contained in the reports submitted by the State parties and in the summary records of the relevant meetings of the Committee. I r p' hi cc rl Gc wl cc 63 or As in sa pr pa thl 59. Ecuador 64 rel thE thE wex te:ll Men 60. The Committee considered the additional report of Ecuador (CAT/C/7/Add,11 and 13) at its 89th and 90th meetings, on 12 November 1991 (CAT/C/SR.89 and 90). 61. The report was introduced by the representative of the State party who focused on recent events in the country. Mention was made in particular of the establishment by decree on 13 July 1990 of an international commission to look into the matter of the disappearance on 8 January 1988 of the Restrepo ~rizmende brothers, aged 17 and 14. The Commission had submitted a report on 2 September 1991 to the President of Ecuador which had concluded, inter alia, that the brothers had disappeared while in the hands of members of the National Police, that there had been negligence in police investigations and deliberate attempts by members of the police to cover up offences related to the case; and that the brothers were no longer alive. The Commission' recommended that legal proceedings should be instituted against persons suspected of having committed offences in connection with the case and that the family of the victims should receive compensation. In addition, it recommended that necessary measures should be adopted to prevent similar cases from occurring in future as well as to guarantee an investigation of other -14Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library of whe had ins lia reg Ad hum 65. kno' the cou tha Tor and reql res] non· RaPl