E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 146 320. Adilson Chrusczak was reportedly arrested on 13 July 2000 by two police officers wearing civilian clothes on Anchietta Avenue in São Paulo, on suspicion of extortion. At the time of arrest, he is believed to have been thrown on the floor and a police officer is said to have stepped on his back. He was then allegedly taken to the Riacho Grande area where he was beaten, in particular with a gun butt, for approximately one hour. He was then reportedly transferred handcuffed to a place which is said to be the building formerly used as a jail, where he was allegedly beaten by five or six officers. He was then reported to have been forced to take a cold shower. At 3.00 a.m., he was reportedly forced to sign a confession that he was not allowed to read. At 4.00 a.m., he is said to have been transferred to the DEPATRI jail. He is believed to have been stripped naked and to have been beaten. According to the information received, because of the overcrowding in the cells at the time of his transfer, he was held in the visitors room for seven days. In this room, it is reported that there was no mattress and no toilet and that detainees had to use bottles and plastic bags to relieve themselves. On several occasions during these seven days, they were allegedly beaten with iron bars, each time for some 40 minutes. Forty days after his arrest, he was reportedly brought before a judge without having previously been able to meet with his lawyer. 321. E.S.S., aged 17, had reportedly been transferred to Franco da Rocha on 30 July 2000 at its reinauguration. On 14 August, more than 20 guards are said to have invaded his cell in the early morning and to have thrown several detainees on the floor. One warden reportedly hit him in the face and on his elbow with a metal bar and a piece of wood. As a result, he reportedly lost a front tooth and his arm was reportedly broken. He was also said to have been hit on the back by a number of other guards. He was reported to have been taken to hospital on the same day, however, when he arrived the doctor was said to have been leaving, so he did not receive any medical treatment. As a result, he was reportedly unable to bend his elbow fully. 322. Sebastiáo Guilherme dos Santos, a detainee in Carandiru prison, had reportedly been shot in the leg in 1995 in the street when he was working as a train cleaner. In May 1998, he was said to have been arrested and transferred to the police station in Itapevi, where he was detained for about three months, and from there to the Embu das Artes police station. On 27 April 1999, he was reportedly transferred to Carandiru prison. His leg reportedly had become infected at the Itapevi police station; however, he was allegedly not taken to hospital. After his transfer to Carandiru, he was reportedly supposed to receive medical treatment at the public hospital; however, the doctors at the Hospital das Clinicas reportedly refused to accept him on the grounds that they did not accept prisoners for treatment. He reportedly was sent to another hospital some time later, where his wound was looked at and he was sent back to prison. A week later, he went again to hospital and was said to have been sent back without treatment. In midAugust 2000, one week before the visit of the Special Rapporteur, when his whole lower leg was infected and covered by an open wound, he was reportedly sent to a hospital where a doctor told him to keep the bandages clean, change them twice a day and to disinfect the wound; only when the wound was no longer oozing, could surgery be performed. The medical staff at Carandiru prison are said to have given him injections for the pain, anti-inflammatory medication and bandages to the extent available. However, for three days in a row during the week before the Special Rapporteur’s visit, the bandages reportedly were changed, and prior to that no bandage material is said to have been available for over a week.