E/CN.4/1993/26 page 52 Information received from the Government with respect to cases included in previous reports 237. On 10 February 1992 the Government sent a reply with respect to the following cases, which had been transmitted by the Special Rapporteur on 18 October 1991 (see E/CN.4/1991/17, para. 101): (a) Liam de Clair, arrested on 17 July 1990 and taken to Ios police station. The Government reported that he was arrested on 17 July 1990 and brought before the Public Prosecutor the very next day. He would obviously have complained before him if he had been ill-treated. He had no contact with a lawyer because on the small island of Ios there was neither a lawyer nor the possibility of providing him with one. The shed in which he was detained outside the police station was a normal detention room. As to the information according to which Mr. Liam de Clair was given a medical examination which certified that he had bruises, it should be borne in mind that many detainees harm themselves in a attempt either to create false impressions or to minimize their stay in detention rooms in exchange for hospitalization; (b) Emmanouil Kasapakis was beaten by policemen on 23 September 1990. The Government reported that Mr. Kasapakis was visited by the police on the night of 21/22 September 1990 after his neighbours complained of the disturbance of the peace caused by the people in Mr. Kasapakis' apartment. In the course of their third visit Mr. Kasapakis and two other people attacked and insulted them. As a result, Mr. Kasapakis and one police officer were wounded and subsequently transported to the hospital. An investigation was carried out; however, no responsibility on the part of the police officers involved in the incident was established. Mr. Kasapakis himself refused to go to the police station to testify concerning the case. (c) Kostas Andreadis, arrested on 23 March 1990 on suspicion of being a member of the "Vigilant Anarchists" organization. The Government reported that an inquiry carried out by the competent police department in Thessaloniki established that Mr. Andreadis confessed on his own free will the unlawful acts he had committed (possession of arms, arson, robberies, etc.). On 24 March 1990, the police authorities presented Mr. Andreadis to television and newspaper journalists. In the course of this press conference the detainee described his acts without alluding to any sort of torture or ill-treatment inflicted upon him. Guatemala Information transmitted to the Government 238. On 21 August 1992 the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received reports on the following cases of torture in Guatemala: (a) Walter Federico Flores, age 17, was severely beaten on 23 October 1991 in the Botellón area, intersection of 4th Avenue and 19th street, Zone 1, Guatemala, by young men wearing police cadet school uniforms. He was left unconscious under a bridge and later received medical attention at the Casa Alianca;