E/CN.4/1995/34 page 127 transferred to the Sasomendi barracks. A hood was reportedly placed over his head and he was forced to do press-ups for a period of 11 hours while being beaten with bare hands and with a sheaf of papers. He also allegedly received death threats. He was released the following day without charge and he lodged a judicial complaint on 8 September 1993. 664. With respect to this case the Government informed that Mr. Berasategui remained in detention from 8.30 p.m. to 6.20 a.m. and that from 4.30 he was interrogated in the presence of his lawyer. The allegation that he was ill-treated for 11 hours is therefore false. Moreover, he never made a complaint before a judicial authority. 665. Juan Calvo Azabal was arrested on 19 August 1993 at Nanclares de Oca, Alava, by members of the Ertzaintza police, who accused him of having stolen a vehicle at the Arkante base in Alava. According to the forensic report, his death was caused by asphyxiation triggered by the self-defence sprays used by the police. In addition, numerous wounds were reportedly discovered on the body. 666. With respect to this case, the Government sent copies of a number of documents referring to the investigation carried out by the Public Ministry and the judge into Mr. Calvo’s death. According to them, the police had to use the above-mentioned spray when they were attacked by the detainee who was trying to run away. At the same time he was severely beaten. Judicial procedings were initiated against eight policemen accused of being responsible for the death. Follow-up to cases included in previous reports 667. In his letter of 4 July 1994 the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1993 with respect to which investigations were pending. The Government referred to them in its letter of 27 October 1994. Regarding Eduardo Basabe Larrinaga and Germán Cristóbal Aznar, the Government indicated that on 25 February 1994 the cases had been provisionally filed for lack of evidence. With respect to the case of Arnaldo Otegui Mondragón, the Government stated that those accused had been acquitted. In the cases of Kepa Urra Goridi and Koldo Arrese Garate, the Government replied that the trial had not yet concluded. Sri Lanka Information transmitted to the Government and replies received 668. By letter dated 5 August 1994 the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received reports alleging that armed men from the army or other military forces, dressed either in military uniform or civilian clothes, had on numerous occasions arrested ethnic Tamils and held them in secret places of detention for a week or longer. One such location was alleged to be an army camp located off Galle Road, Kollupitiya, Colombo, behind the Indian High Commission and the American Information Centre. The detainees were said often to be interrogated under torture, the purpose of which was to make them confess to involvement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Similar arrests were said to have been carried out by a