E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 136 293. Eduardo Pedro da Costa, detained at the Americana jail, was reportedly taken from his cell to the courtyard together with other detainees from his cell block on 2 June 2000. It is alleged that he had initiated a dispute with a prison guard, who had hit him and had injured his head. According to the information received, the military police arrived at the jail and formed two parallel lines (a “Polish corridor”) in the hallway between the courtyard and the cell block. The police reportedly ordered the detainees to remove their clothes and run through the Polish corridor whilst they beat them with clubs, iron bars, a short whip and steel razors. According to the information provided, the detainees were forced to lie down on the ground in the courtyard and were beaten again. The police officers reportedly doused them with water containing vinegar and salt, increasing the pain on their wounds. During the beatings, officers allegedly ordered the detainees to sing various self-deprecating phrases. The jail director was reportedly present during all the beatings. Eduardo Pedro Costa is said to have been singled out and beaten for approximately two hours with razor wire, clubs, bamboo sticks and iron bars. He was allegedly removed to a hospital the same day. According to the information received, he wavered in and out of consciousness and consequently was unaware which hospital he had been in. He is said to have been transferred from the hospital to the jail in Santa Barbara d’Oeste and later transferred back to the Americana jail. Wilson Pereira da Silva, another detainee, was reportedly whipped with various metal cords, metal bars, pieces of wood and bottles. Cristiano Rodrigues dos Anjos, also a detainee, was reportedly beaten with whips, bottles, iron bars and clubs. He was allegedly transferred to another prison a week later, together with another four detainees. There they are said to have been beaten again severely by the military police with clubs and wooden sticks. Detainee Luis Claudio Bonfim reportedly had his arm broken with an iron bar. He was allegedly examined on 2 June 2000 in a hospital. Detainee Daniel Bueno is believed to have been severely beaten with whips, causing over 50 lesions. It is also reported that he was hit on the head several times, causing him to lose all sensation for several minutes. According to the information received, photos of his body showed extensive skin discolouration over most of his shoulders, back and buttocks. Some days after the beating, his lawyer visited the jail and reportedly demanded that an official medical examination be performed. The sectional police chief of the Americana jail reportedly visited the jail on 14 July 2000 and conducted interviews with the director and several detainees. The sectional police chief allegedly ordered the removal of an investigator and a prison officer and opened an internal inquiry. On 31 July 2000, several detainees in the jail were said to have been observed to bear multiple scars. 294. On 30 January 2000, some mothers who were visiting their sons in Saint André FEBEM institution saw some wooden and iron sticks wrapped in a piece of cloth covered with blood. The press is said to have been called and to have video-recorded the scene. FEBEM authorities are reported to have collected the sticks and to have indicated to the press that they had been brought in by the detainees’ mothers. It is believed that a large number of inmates of Saint André were observed to have suffered broken teeth, arms and legs at that time. According to the information received, FEBEM guards (monitores), some masked, had further beaten the minors in their sleep the following night. 295. S.A., aged 18, was reportedly transferred from Carandiru, where he had been detained in the Criminological Observation Centre (COC), to the Franco da Rocha detention centre at the beginning of the summer 2000. According to the information received, he had been first detained in 1997, but had managed to escape during a rebellion. Upon arrival at