E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 137 Franco da Rocha, he was allegedly beaten by coordinators and monitors who were accompanied by agents from the surveillance unit (UAP) and from the educational unit (UE). He and other detainees were reportedly told to take their clothes off and were severely beaten with wooden sticks and metal bars filled with cement. This allegedly happened several times after his transfer to Franco da Rocha and to have always taken place at night. The director is reported to have had witnessed such treatment many times and not to have ever tried to stop it. 296. C.G.D., aged 17, was reportedly held in the unit of Franco da Rocha where a revolt took place in the summer of 2000. He was subsequently allegedly detained in a cell with a small window where he was locked up 24 hours a day in a cell without mattresses with 10 other detainees. According to the information received, about 10 monitors and coordinators and 2 UAP agents went to the cell to check the detainees and beat them up. It is alleged that C.G.D. was kicked on the face, stepped on over the hips and that his head was hit against a wall. All detainees in the wing where the revolt is supposed to have started were said to have been threatened with metal bars and beaten. After this incident, C.G.D. was allegedly subjected to constant humiliation and death threats. It is reported that his request to receive medical assistance was denied. 297. Gilberto Ferreira Da Silva was reportedly arrested on 24 August 2000. He was allegedly caught in flagrante by civil police and military police officers. According to the information received, he was kicked on his face while lying on the floor by three military police officers before being taken to a police station. As he was bleeding, he was reportedly later taken to a hospital by the officers who had arrested him. During the medical examination a doctor asked the police what had happened and a police officer allegedly replied that he had just been arrested. It is reported that he was taken to the 11th district police station in São Paolo where he signed a confession (nota de culpa). 298. Jorge Miranda do Nascimiento was reportedly arrested in November 1999 at his home. It is reported that the police entered the house and as he was not present took away his wife until he returned. He was allegedly taken to the 47th district police station in São Paolo where he was beaten with wooden sticks and metal bars by four or five police officers for some two hours and kicked on his face and on his feet until he signed a confession. It is believed that he was threatened. 299. F.G.L., aged 15, was reportedly arrested on the street by three members of the civil police on 24 May 1999 in São Martens, allegedly caught in flagrante delicto committing a car theft. He was reportedly taken to the 49th district police station, where it is believed that he was beaten, in particular in the stomach, with pieces of wood and with their hands by the policemen and the owner of the car. He is said to have then been forced to sign a confession. He was reportedly brought before a prosecutor two days later and complained to him about the illtreatment he had allegedly been subjected to. The same day, he is said to have been seen by a judge. The lawyer he had been assigned did not mention the fact that the confession had been extracted under duress. According to the information received, Fabio Gomez da Lima complained directly to the judge, who is said not to have reacted. His mother was reportedly informed of his arrest at 2 a.m. the following morning. When she arrived at the police station, she is said to have been denied access to her son, who was being transferred to the FEBEM Unidade de Accolimento, where he stayed for five days. It is reported that he had to remain