E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 110 were absent. On 3 May, Valdecir Bordignon allegedly underwent another official medical examination which was reportedly signed by a doctor who had not seen him. An inquiry has allegedly been opened. Lorival Lesse was allegedly handcuffed by four police officers and submerged in the cattle pool about 10 times, and forced to drink some of the water. He was said to have been held by his feet by one police officer while another one choked him with a rope. He was reportedly told to undress. It is said that the police officers threatened to impale him with a stalk of sugar cane. The police officers reportedly beat him for about an hour. It is reported that they threatened him and pointed a gun at his neck and ear. According to the information received, he said he did not know the information requested and was threatened with a knife at his neck. Aristide dos Santos Lisboa was allegedly taken behind a farm building and interrogated. He was reportedly verbally abused, pushed onto the floor, and threatened with death with a weapon pointing at him. An officer reportedly hung him by his feet while another put a rope around his neck and attempted to hang him. He was reportedly tortured for an hour. 188. Geraldo José dos Santos, an illiterate agricultural worker, was allegedly a member of a group that occupied a farm in Santa Cruz de Monte Castelo. On 7 May 1999, at 1.30 a.m., several military police officers and officers from the civil police Special Operations Group, some of them wearing masks, allegedly arrived at the farm and started to shoot and to throw explosives at the camp, destroying the huts which the farm workers had erected. Geraldo José dos Santos was reportedly kicked in the ribs and fell on the floor. Twenty-four workers from the MST were reportedly forced to lie on the ground where they reportedly remained for several hours. The officers allegedly made their dogs lick the workers’ mouths. Some of the workers reportedly were injured by the explosives. The officers allegedly took money from a number of workers. According to the information received, the above-named person was taken to hospital. As a result of the incident, he reportedly urinated blood for several days. An inquiry has allegedly been opened. State of Pernambuco 189. Saul Limeira Barbosa was reportedly arrested by eight police officers on 23 March 1999 in Recife, taken to the Jardim São Paulo police station and kept naked in a cell. He is said to have been beaten with a piece of rubber by two police officers in order to make him disclose his sister’s location. He was reportedly released on the following day. He is said to have undergone an official medical examination which reportedly registered lesions on his body. 190. Sebastião Freire dos Santos Filho, a taxi driver, was reportedly beaten up by three civil policemen from the theft and robbery police station of Recife in front of his house on 11 January 2000. He is said not to have received any medical treatment. The case has reportedly been passed on to the appropriate authorities. 191. Sergio Eduardo Pereira Camargo, aged 28, was reportedly arrested by three military police officers in a bar in Recife in August 1998 on suspicion of armed robbery. According to the information received, his father was immediately informed of his arrest. He was taken to the Bon Viagem police station and the following day to the theft and robbery police station without his family being informed. On 17 August, he was reportedly taken to the Piedad police station where he was stripped naked and left in a cell into which water had been poured. He was