E/CN.4/1993/26 page 54 children (see E/CN.4/1992/17, para. 104). Mr. Mejía was the principal witness in the trial of 26 members of various police units accused of involvement in an incident on 7 November 1990 when three children were brutally attacked by security forces' personnel outside the Casa Alianza. Subsequent to his testimony threats had mounted and on 12 March 1992 David Mejía Paiz, Axel's brother, was kidnapped and held for several hours by men in civilian clothes driving in a black vehicle with polarized windows. 245. The Special Rapporteur took note of the information transmitted by the Government of Guatemala on activities of the irregular groups as a result of which several persons were executed or injured and two died when abandoned mines exploded. He was also informed of damage to property caused by these groups. Haiti Information received from the Government in connection with Commission resolution 1992/42 Information transmitted to the de facto Haitian Government 246. In a letter of 5 October 1992 the Special Rapporteur informed the de facto Government that he had received reports that persons arrested for political reasons were almost invariably beaten on arrest and were subsequently maltreated in prison. The following 23 cases had been reported to him: (a) Evans Paul, major of Port-au-Prince and leader of the Confederation for Democratic Union (Konfederasyon Inite Democratic) was arrested at Maïs Gate international airport on 7 October 1991 by soldiers who, in the presence of witnesses, took off his clothes, hit him with their helmets and revolvers and burned him with a red hot rifle barrel. He was detained for several days in prison and a military school where the soldiers beat him again and again. When he was released he had broken ribs, multiple bruises and wounds on the back, head and eyes and a bad burn caused by the hot rifle barrel; (b) Danny Toussaint, captain, and Pierre Cherubin, police chief, were beaten by security forces, who also threatened to kill them, when they were in the National Palace on 30 September 1991; (c) Aldajusts Pierre, a member of the Papaye Peasant at Hinche, Central Department, was arrested by soldiers from the Hinche military base on 16 October 1991 and accused of being in possession of an underground newspaper. According to the information received he was badly beaten in prison and denied medical treatment; (d) Casimir Rosalvo was arrested during a military raid on a working class district of Gonaïves on 11 November 1991. He was tortured by soldiers, causing swelling of the genitals, ears and eyes. A soldier started to cut off one of his ears but a second soldier stopped him;