A/HRC/13/39/Add.2 equipment and detainees had to sleep on the floor as there were no mattresses. The Special Rapporteur was received by the chief of the Montevideo Police, Nestor Artigas Lema. Individual cases 43. Raul Rivero, aged 50, said that he did not have any complaints of torture because he confessed immediately. He asked to be transferred to Module 17 of COMCAR, and asked for the Special Rapporteur���s assistance in this matter. 44. A male detainee reported that he had been taken to the 26th Sectional Police Station, where his hands and legs were handcuffed. He was allegedly beaten and kicked by a police officer on his face and stomach. He was taken to see a doctor, but he did not report the ill-treatment. He also claimed that other detainees had also been beaten and had their testicles squeezed by the police. He had no complaints about the food, but added that he wished there were some educational activities. 45. José de Matteis, aged 45, was arrested on 19 March on the street, was taken away in a police car and later transferred to another car, without any official markings. He was taken to the 7th Sectional Police Station in San José, forced to undress and taken to a calabozo, where he remained for six hours. On 20 March, he complained of asthma-related difficulties and was taken to the hospital in Montevideo for a medical examination. He was then taken back to the calabozo. On 21 March, he was transferred to the 4th Sectional Police Station, where he was undressed, placed in a cell facing the wall, and beaten and kicked on his legs, back, face and kidneys by two police officers. Water was then thrown on him, and he was forced to stay wet for seven hours. When he was presented before a judge, he asked to see a forensic doctor. He said that he had been told by the doctor that his testicles and kidneys were swollen. 46. Three days after the interview with Mr. de Matteis took place, the Special Rapporteur saw him once again at the Police Headquarters. Mr. de Matteis exhibited a purple and swollen right eye. He reported that three of the detainees who had been interviewed on 23 March were taken out of their cells and questioned regarding the information they had provided to the Special Rapporteur. (See below, 26 March 2009.) 47. Pablo Miguel Nesse Torterolo, aged 38, was arrested on 20 March 2009 for selling drugs. He was beaten with a rubber stick during the arrest. He complained about the lack of food, and the fact that he was placed in a calabozo which was full of excrement. He had no family. 48. A male detainee, aged 20, was arrested on 26 March 2009 by police officers dressed in civilian clothes. The police allegedly found money in his home and told him that it was money he had obtained from selling drugs. He was told by the police that he had been filmed selling drugs, but he claimed he was innocent. He reported that the police threatened to arrest his mother and brother as well. He did not complain of being beaten, but reported that he had been handcuffed and undressed. 49. Marcos Eduardo Pineda Tejera had been taken to the 1st Sectional Police Station before the visit. His right arm was in a cast, and the police officers cut away approximately 15 centimetres of the cast to see whether he was hiding anything in it. He was punched and kicked until he bled by two police officers and two officers from the special “banda” (criminal gang unit) while standing against a wall. He was cuffed to the metal bars of the large cell on the left side in the back of the station. The officers wanted him to confess to a crime. Because he was beaten and kicked in the head he became unconscious at some stage. He estimated that he had been unconscious for approximately five hours. When he woke up his right temple was stitched. 34 GE.09-17655