E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 128 263. Ary Holando dos Santos Pereira, detained at the 11th district police station at the time of the interview with the Special Rapporteur on 27 August 2000, was reportedly approached and arrested, together with two other men, by four police officers from Depatri at 7 p.m. on 1 August 1999 on his way from work. He was allegedly taken to Depatri and accused of having stolen meal vouchers, which he denied. The police officers reportedly punched him with their fists on his ears and face to make him sign a confession to the theft, which he allegedly signed. Fifteen days later, four police officers from Depatri allegedly beat him again for about four hours in order to make him sign another confession, which he reportedly did not sign. He is said to have been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a crime he denies having committed. 264. David Barbosa da Silva, detained at the 11th district police station at the time of the interview with the Special Rapporteur on 27 August 2000, used to live in the street and was reportedly suffering from bronchitis and pneumonia. He had reportedly gone to the mayor’s office to obtain a registration card on 9 August 2000. In a restaurant on the way, a minor who he knew and who had reportedly stolen a watch, is said to have started talking to him. A police officer allegedly came up to them, let the minor go and arrested David Barbosa da Silva. He was reportedly brought to the 11th district police station, where he was placed in the investigation room. A police officer is said to have pointed a gun at his waist and stated that he would cripple him. Several police officers reportedly punched him four times on the back, hit him with a night stick rolled in rubber material and an iron bar, and slapped him twice. As a result of the torture, the right side of his back reportedly swelled up. He was said to have been made to sign a statement, which he was reportedly not allowed to read, that he had assaulted and misled a minor. The officers reportedly said to him that if he did not die from bronchitis and pneumonia, they would “take a decision about his fate”. As a result of the beating, he reportedly vomited blood all night. He is said not to be represented by a lawyer. A female lawyer who had gone to see him on 9 August 2000, was reportedly denied access to him. 265. Washington Pintos de Godoy, detained at the 11th district police station at the time of the interview with the Special Rapporteur on 27 August 2000, reportedly contracted HIV in a penitentiary in 1998, for which he is said not to receive any treatment. In the previous three months, he is said to have been transferred from the 6th district police station, to the 35th, then to the 85th, from there to the 100th and finally to the 11th district police station. Previously, he had reportedly been transferred to an agricultural colony, from which he escaped. Fifteen days later, he reportedly arranged a medical examination. On 30 March 2000, he was reportedly forced to sign a statement that he had committed a crime contrary to article 157 in the Canbusi section of the 6th police district. The police allegedly found a witness who was willing to implicate him. He was said to have been asked to pay 30,000 reais to be released, which he did not pay. He was allegedly beaten all over his body with iron tubes, baseball clubs, wooden sticks and chains by four military police officers for one and a half hours. They reportedly stopped the beatings because his wife arrived. Washington Pintos de Godoy is said to be bringing a court case with regard to having contracted HIV in prison. 266. Daniel Rocha de Souze was reportedly arrested at the end of June 2000 and brought to the 11th district police station in São Paulo, where he was allegedly beaten for two and a half hours by police officers, inter alia with an iron bar on his right leg, and slapped and punched in the face. As a result of the treatment he was subjected to, he signed a confession. Around 1 August 2000, his brother Elson Oliveira de Souze reportedly came to visit him