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59.
The Special Rapporteur has received updated information on cases of torture dealt with
by various bodies, on the investigations carried out and on their results from the fifth annual
report of the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District (CDHDF) covering the period
between October 1997 and September 1998.
60.
According to this source, the number of complaints received during this period by
CDHDF alleging human rights violations was 3,384 (63.89 per cent of the total number of
complaints received). Of these, 461 concerned violations of the rights of
prisoners, 401 injuries, 127 threats and 398 delays in the administration of justice.
61.
The specific bodies that were mentioned most frequently as allegedly being responsible
for human rights violations were, in the case of the Federal High Court of Justice
(146 complaints): the office of the President; the thirty-third, ninth, fifteenth, twenty-fourth and
fifty-eighth criminal courts; the twenty-seventh civil court; the twenty-first family court; the
thirty-second magistrates’ criminal court; and the forensic medical service. In the case of the
Procurator’s Office of the Federal District (1,610 complaints), the body against which most
complaints were directed was the Judicial Police (491 complaints), followed by the Delegación
Regional Cuauhtémoc; the forty-fourth branch office of the Public Prosecutor’s office in
Iztapaplapa; the Office for Coordinating the Recovery of Stolen Vehicles; the fiftieth branch
office of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Álvaro Obregón; the Directorate-General for the
Investigation of Offences against Honour, Professional Responsibility and Relations with Public
Officials; the third branch office of the Public Prosecutor’s office in Cuauhtémoc; the fourth
branch office of the Public Prosecutor’s office in Cuauhtémoc; and the regional
Gustavo A. Madero office. The Government of the Federal District received 1,807 complaints,
the largest number (676 complaints) being directed against the Public Security Department,
followed by the Pre-trial Detention Directorate of Varonil Norte and Varonil Sur; the
Directorate-General for Prisons and Social Rehabilitation Centres; the Pre-trial Detention
Directorate of Varonil Oriente; the Directorate-General for Health Services; the Administration
of the Santa Martha Acatitla penitentiary; the Delegación Política Cuauhtémoc; the
Administration of the Tepepan Women’s Centre for Social Rehabilitation; and the
Administration of the Oriente Women’s Pre-trial Detention Prison.
62.
CDHDF stated that 98.6 per cent of the complaints had been processed and disposed of,
most of them (62.96 per cent) as a result of a solution arrived at during court proceedings.
Detailed information was also provided on the action taken to determine the appropriate body to
which complaints should be referred, as required by the CDHDF Law and on the time taken to
process the complaints that had been disposed of, which should normally be 12 months from the
date of their submission. This information was accompanied by statistics indicating the outcome
and duration of the proceedings, broken down by the organs handling the complaints, as well as
the nature of the complaints, of the complainants and their socio-economic profile.
63.
As for the programme to combat impunity, it was stated that during the period in question
the work of CDHDF resulted in the imposition of 163 disciplinary and/or criminal sanctions.
The report also indicates the names and positions of the officials sanctioned and the nature of the
sanctions imposed. Furthermore, it summarizes its recommendations, 70 per cent of which were
acted on during the period under consideration.
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