E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 78 48. Clênio Kenedy de Almeida, a 20-year-old detainee at the Nelson Hungria Penitentiary was allegedly beaten by prison guards in early 2000. He was reportedly threatened with death by a guard who pointed a gun at his head, and was allegedly kept naked in an isolation cell on a bare, wet concrete floor with no mattress. According to the information received, he was suffering from bronchitis and had bruises all over his body as a result of the beatings to which he had allegedly been subjected. His request to be allowed to see a doctor was not granted. 49. D.S., aged 11, was allegedly beaten by two military police officers on 4 July 2000 in a building belonging to a private company in Belo Horizonte. The police officers allegedly hit him three times on his head with a wooden stick and slapped him several times on his back. The incident was reportedly denounced to the police ouvidor. 50. Rosivaldo Venancio Gomes, aged 24, was allegedly arrested on 9 August 1999 on suspicion of bank robbery and taken to the theft and robbery police station in Belo Horizonte, where he was allegedly beaten. 51. Pedro Alves Vieira, aged 35, was allegedly arrested on September 1999, taken to the 19th district police station in Belo Horizonte and later transferred to the Nova Lima police station. According to the information received, his family was later told that he had been found dead on the same day. It is said that there were several bruises on his body. The case has allegedly been reported to the police ouvidor. 52. Maurício Miranda Braga, a 23-year-old detainee at the Nelson Hungria Penitentiary, was allegedly beaten on his abdomen and genitals on 30 December 1997. On 6 January 1998, he reportedly underwent an official medical examination and lesions consistent with his allegations were apparently found. 53. Claudinei de Souza Goldinho, Fábio Bruno de Paula, José Alves de Moura and Flávio de Jesus, all detainees at the Penitentiary House in Governador Valadares, were reportedly beaten by military police officers and prison guards on 25 June 2000 after they allegedly attempted to start a revolt. As a result of the beatings, they reportedly had bruises all over their bodies. Flávio de Jesus was believed to have been taken to a hospital. 54. Rogério Corrêa da Silva, a detainee at the Nelson Hungria Penitentiary, was allegedly beaten by a penitentiary officer on 2 August 2000. According to the information received, he was beaten because he had made accusations in a local newspaper and during a Prison Ministry mass about maltreatment that had occurred in the prison. He was allegedly punished by the prison’s board of directors and sent to an isolation cell. Allegedly he should have benefited from conditional liberty, but was not released because of the disciplinary faults he had been charged with. 55. Vanderlei Inácio de Carvalho was reportedly detained at the theft and robbery police station in Belo Horizonte and was allegedly beaten by police officers on 24 September 1999. According to the information received, public prosecutors visited the police station on the same day and saw lesions on several parts of his body, despite the fact that police officers had tried to hide him from the public prosecutors by placing him in another cell. It is reported that the public prosecutors found a small room called the “parrot’s perch room” containing objects such