E/CN.4/1995/34 page 94 forward by Mr. Manríquez, the High Court of Justice of the Federal District decided to declare the case inadmissible on the grounds that it did not correspond to any of the hypotheses envisaged by article 614 of the Code of Penal Procedure. Urgent appeals 484. On 31 January 1994 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of Severiano Santiz Gómez, Sebasatián Santiz López and Hermelindo Santiz Gómez, members of the Tzeltal indigenous community of Morelia, Altamirano Chiapas, arrested on 7 January 1994 by the army and allegedly ill-treated. Thirty-one other persons were arrested during the same incident and were said to have suffered beatings and burns. In his letter of 29 March, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received further information indicating that the above-named persons’ bodies had been found on 11 February 1994 and that at the time of their arrest they were brutally tortured in the presence of witnesses. 485. The Special Rapporteur transmitted another urgent appeal to the Government on 5 July 1994 on behalf of Maria Teresa Méndez Sántiz, Cristina Méndez Sántiz, aged 18, and María Méndez Sántiz, members of the indigenous community of Tzeltal Altamirano, Chiapas, who were reportedly detained on 4 June 1994 by members of the army between the localities of Santa Rosita Sibaquil and Altamirano. They were allegedly tortured and raped by about 30 soldiers who tried to force them to confess to participation in the EZLN. A medical examination subsequently corroborated the rape allegations. Observations 486. The Special Rapporteur is concerned at the continuance of "an extremely large number of acts of torture of all kinds" (Committee against Torture, A/48/44, para. 228; see also the comments of the Human Rights Committee, A/49/40, para. 172). He is also disappointed by the limited results of the recently established National Human Rights Commission. In one of the few instances where it has made a clear finding, the responsible legal bodies have contrived to deny a remedy to Manuel Manríquez San Augustín, whose case is described above (para. 483) and in previous reports (E/CN.4/1994/31, para. 385). Mozambique Information transmitted to the Government 487. By letter dated 5 August 1994 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information indicating that suspects held at police stations were routinely kicked, severely beaten, or flogged with a whip known as chamboco. Although the law requires suspects to be delivered promptly to the criminal investigation of the Policia da República de Moçambique (PRM) and to be brought before a judge within 48 hours, the procedures were said often to be disregarded.