E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 100 police officers in plain clothes reportedly beat her again. They allegedly stopped when she accused someone else. The Redenção Guardianship Council was reportedly informed and forwarded the case to the Office of the Public Prosecutor. According to official police information, the case is not registered at the Conceição do Araguaia police station. No police inquiry or other official investigation is said to have been opened about the incident. 149. C. de M.R., aged 14, M.C.A., aged 16, N. da S.S., aged 17, were allegedly arrested by two civil police officers on 21 July 1997 in Redenção, on suspicion of robbery. They were reportedly subjected to electro-shocks and beaten on the head and buttocks. The Redenção Guardianship Council is said to have informed and forwarded the case to the Office of the Public Prosecutor on 4 August 1997. According to the information received, an official police inquiry was opened on 13 October 1997 under the supervision of the chief of the police station in Redenção, who reportedly had been previously indicted by a public prosecutor for the crime of torture. According to the information received, the officers have not been punished and one of them is said to be still working at the same station. On 18 November 1997, N da S S was allegedly rearrested in Redenção by three police officers. According to the information received, the officers kicked and punched him on his head, torso and other parts of his body. The following day, his mother reportedly told the Guardianship Council about the alleged beating and the boy reportedly underwent an official medical examination. No police inquiry or other official investigation are said to have been opened concerning the second arrest. 150. Adão Pereira, an agricultural worker, reportedly died on 26 May 1993 as a result of having been tortured for a whole night by civil and military police officers at the São Félix police station in Xingu. It is reported that there were three witnesses to the case, and that a judicial inquiry has been opened. Proceedings are said to have reached a standstill. A police officer and a chief of police were reportedly indicted, but have not been punished. 151. Osório Barbosa Barros, an agricultural worker, was reportedly arrested by civil police officers on 8 September 1993 on suspicion of murder. According to the information received, he was taken to the police station in Xinguara where he is said to have been given electro-shocks and to have been suffocated and beaten for five days. 152. Edilson Barbosa de Oliveria, a haemophiliac, was allegedly beaten by a military police officer on 12 July 1998 in a military police box in Rio Maria. He reportedly went into hospital for four days. Military police officers are said to have been indicted. 153. L.R. da L., aged 16, and E, aged 14, were reportedly beaten and taken to a police station by military police in Rio de Maria on 14 June 1998 after the sister of L.R. da L. allegedly called the police because they would not turn their music off. Once released, they were allegedly threatened not to tell anyone about the incident. According to the police, there is no report about the incident at the police station in Rio de Maria. 154. L., aged 16, was allegedly arrested by military police officers on December 1999 in Rio Maria on suspicion of theft. He was reportedly taken to a police station where he was allegedly punched and kicked in the face and ribs. According to the information received, he was imprisoned for several hours and later released as a result of action by the Guardianship