E/CN.4/1995/34 page 34 said to have killed 4 and arrested about 600 persons at the demonstration. Most of those arrested were released, but the 6 named persons were reportedly still being held in an army detention centre 52 kilometres from the city. Dominican Republic Information transmitted to the Government 165. By letter dated 30 June 1994, the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received information that Luis Lizardo Cabrera and Víctor Manuel Penaldo Almonte were among a group of 24 prisoners in La Victoria national penitentiary who were severely ill-treated by members of the national police for having declared a hunger strike on 9 August 1993. The strike had been called by the prisoners to protest what they claimed was the illegal detention of persons who had completed their prison sentences or whose release had been ordered by the courts. As a result of their ill-treatment, the two prisoners had to be hospitalized with intestinal problems and injuries to their knees. 166. By the same letter the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of cases transmitted in 1993 regarding which no reply had been received. Ecuador Information transmitted to the Government 167. By letter dated 7 June 1994 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received allegations of torture in the cases summarized in the following paragraphs. 168. Danilo Jara was reportedly arrested and beaten in Quito on 31 October 1993 by three uniformed policemen. At the Office for the Investigation of Offences he was allegedly suffocated by a plastic bag placed over the head into which tear gas was pumped, his testicles were squashed, and he was suspended by his feet while electric shocks were administered. A doctor attached to the Office of the Attorney-General who visited him at Varones Rehabilitation Centre No. 2 stated that Danilo Jara had been severely beaten. 169. Rodrigo Elicio Muñoz Arcos, Luis Artemio Muñoz Arcos, Segundo Hilarión Morales Bolaños and José Vicente Morales Rivera, all Colombian nationals, were arrested on 26 August 1993 in the town of Tulcán, Carchi province, by the police and taken to the local Office for the Investigation of Offences. For 13 days they were allegedly held incommunicado and subjected to various forms of torture, including beatings and suffocation by a plastic bag placed over the head into which tear gas was pumped. The presence of injuries was reportedly confirmed by two doctors who visited the detainees at the Social Rehabilitation Centre to which they had been transferred on 7 September 1993. 170. The following persons, most of Colombian nationality, were arrested between 17 and 21 December 1993 by army personnel of the Selva Brigade 56 in the area of Peña Colorada and Lorenzo, as well as in the towns of Nueva Esperanza and Montepa, in the province of Sucumbios: Carmen Bolaños Mora,