E/CN.4/1997/7 page 24 beaten heavily with wooden sticks during interrogation. He was later transferred to the Atauro island prison, where he remained until January 1987, without having seen a judge. On 27 November 1991, after he was arrested again in Viqueque, he was interrogated and beaten with belts, kicked and punched at KODIM headquarters. He remained at KODIM for about three months, during which time he was not allowed to receive visits, including from the ICRC. 100. Egas Dias Quintas Monteiro, a student, was arrested for the first time in August 1991 in Bandung, West Java, by military personnel, who blindfolded him and brought him to a military barracks in Sumera. There he was beaten with a rubber stick, kicked and given electric shocks to his sexual organs and ears. He also had a nail hammered in each foot, was burnt with cigarettes and had all his toenails extracted. During the torture he was interrogated about his participation in demonstrations and about declarations he had made to the press criticizing the Indonesian study programme for young East Timorese in Java. He was later taken to a military hospital, from which he escaped. He was subsequently arrested in November 1991 and November 1994 in Jakarta, but he was not ill-treated on those occasions. 101. Alfredo Rodríguez was first arrested in October 1987, while carrying arms for the guerrilla in the mountains. He was wounded in the incident and hospitalized in Dili. One month later he was taken to premises of the military intelligence unit (SGI) where, under interrogation, he was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and two of his toenails were removed. The interrogators also placed his feet under the legs of a chair and sat on it. He was again arrested on 9 June 1993 in Los Palos by military personnel. At the local barracks he was deprived of his clothes, handcuffed, punched, kicked and beaten with wooden sticks, burned with cigarettes repeatedly and his legs were scraped with a sharp object that caused deep wounds. During the torture he was interrogated about his involvement with the resistance movement and was subsequently placed in a cell for six days with his hands and feet tied. He was released on 17 July 1993 after being warned not to tell anybody that he had been tortured. 102. Valdemar Pereira da Silva, a student, was arrested on 17 January 1990 in Lecidere, Dili, by the SGI, during a peaceful pro-independence demonstration. At SGI headquarters in Colmera, he was interrogated about his links with the resistance movement and beaten until he fainted. The interrogators also put the legs of a chair on his feet and sat on it. He was released a few days later and arrested again on 12 November 1991 in the context of the Santa Cruz incidents. He was interrogated on over 10 occasions during four months' detention and was severely beaten during three of the session. Following a demonstration in Colmera on 5 September 1994 he was detained for a third time. At SGI headquarters he was interrogated for about two hours, during which he was severely beaten and given electric shocks to his feet and arm. 103. Ilidio de Oliveira Câmara was arrested together with six friends on 26 December 1995, near the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta. At KODIM headquarters they were interrogated separately and severely beaten. Ilidio de Oliveira Câmara was also burned with cigarettes in his arms. He was transferred to a police station and further interrogated and beaten. He stayed at the police station for two months, during which he was not allowed to contact his family.