E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 92 that were given to her. On 3 or 7 March, she was reportedly transferred by car to Brasilia by the same officer who had allegedly raped her. Upon arrival in Sobradinho police station, she was allegedly handcuffed to a window, seated on a bench. She is said to have remained handcuffed for an entire day. On the following day, she was allegedly taken to the bush by the same officer and other police officers. Gunshots were fired above her head and she was allegedly threatened. Taken back to the police station, she reportedly got in touch with her family. At the end of the following day, her sister arrived at the police station, but she had just been transferred to the women’s prison in Brasilia. Before her transfer, she had reportedly been examined by a forensic expert to whom she complained about the treatment she had allegedly been subjected to in Minas Gerais. She was not shown the medical certificate. According to the information received, police officers from Sobradinho police station went several times to the prison, allegedly to take her out. According to her family, no one had been informed of her arrest and were told that they could not visit her for the first 30 days of her detention in Campina Verde police station. The Commission of Human Rights of the Congress is believed to have written a letter of concern to the police ouvidor of Minas Gerais, inter alia asking for measures to be taken immediately to have her visited by a doctor. The police officer responsible for the rape is reported to have threatened other members of her family if she continued to complain. Her family is said to have complained about these incidents to the police to no avail. 112. Valeria Vieira Lopez, a detainee at the women’s section of the Department of Investigation, was reportedly slapped and called “black woman” when she returned to her cell after work on 3 September 2000. 113. Zilda Messias Coelho, a detainee at the women’s lock-up of the Department of Investigation, was allegedly beaten by two officers of the night shift and a civil policeman during a night in June 2000. They reportedly took her out of the cell, slapped her, grabbed her by the neck and allegedly nearly strangled her. They are further said to have hit her head on the floor, as a result of which she is believed to have fainted. She was then allegedly taken to the hospital where she is believed to have received some medication. She reportedly brought this illtreatment to the attention of the delegado, who is said not to have taken any action. 114. Glaucia Andreia Gonçalves and two other persons were allegedly arrested by six military police officers in Belo Horizonte on 19 August 2000. The police officers allegedly kicked her, made her take her clothes off and forced her to dance and sing. They reportedly hit her on the head with the butt of a gun and slapped her until her head bled. Approximately three hours later, she is said to have been taken to the Department of Investigation at 5.30 a.m. where her request to be taken to the IML was allegedly denied. At the police station she was reportedly asked to sign what she afterwards discovered was a nota de culpa without any explanations. It is believed that she did not see a lawyer. 115. Elisabeth Maria Alves Motta was reportedly beaten and arrested on 25 June 1999. According to the information received, when she arrived at home she found 20 police officers inside and one of them hit her with the butt of his weapon on her forehead. The people inside the house had allegedly already been beaten. It is reported that her foster son, aged 18, was beaten until he started to vomit blood. At that point, three hours after she had arrived, she allegedly admitted to drug charges. The police reportedly drove her around in a car for a long time