CAT/C/75 page 14 ordered that, as he was going to cooperate, he should be taken to the public attorney’s office (Procuradoría) (...) and once he was in an office he started to retract and so they started to hit him again (...). Between blows and threats, they said ‘You’d better pray that we can pick up your friends, or we’ll have to put you down’ (...) and they forced him to sign a confession that he had never made. The torture left him with a number of visible injuries, as the social defence judge of the Puebla judicial district certified after submitting her preliminary report and both the medical experts for the defence and the forensic experts present at the examination also recognized.” 42. In Reynosa, the Committee members heard testimony from a person who had been arrested there in April 2001, one of whose ears had been damaged through kickings and beatings by the preventive police. 43. In Miguel Alemán, the Committee members heard testimony concerning the torture of four people who had been arrested in 2000 and 2001 and repeatedly beaten by military personnel (one case), a police patrol (one case) and the judicial police (one case). The fourth case was that of a person taken into custody by military personnel, whose corpse had subsequently been found bearing marks of torture. 44. In Oaxaca, the Committee members heard testimony from three people who had been arrested in 1996, 1997 and 1998 respectively on charges of belonging to armed groups and had been tortured in several ways by the judicial police. 45. In Chilpancingo, they heard testimony from two men who said that they had been arrested in 2000 and 2001 respectively and tortured in various ways by the judicial police and the municipal police respectively. The first said he had been detained in a murder investigation. During the two days he was held at the Tlapa State judicial police headquarters, he was kept blindfolded with his hands tied, and was hit on the ears and in the stomach. On three occasions, plastic bags had been put over his head until he lost consciousness. Throughout the period, he had been pressured to confess to the murder. He was also put into a tank of water where electrodes were used to administer electric shocks; he was told he would be set on fire, and was denied drink and food. He was never permitted to use the telephone and when his relatives went to enquire about him, they were told that he was not in detention. The same police officers had drawn up a statement that they made him sign, but he did so with a false signature. He had also been portrayed to the press as the culprit. For fear of being tortured again, he had not informed the doctor or the Public Prosecutor’s Office about the treatment he had received. He had only told the doctors who had come to see him in the CERESO and the judge, whom he saw when he was already there. The Guerrero State Commission for the Defence of Human Rights had issued a recommendation concluding that torture had occurred and recommending that the State Attorney-General should launch administrative disciplinary proceedings. As there had been no evidence against the detainee other than the statement obtained under torture, he had been acquitted after spending 10 months in prison.6 46. The Committee members also heard testimony from relatives of a person who had been arrested by members of the judicial police in Tierra Colorada in June 2001. The relatives said that the person had been beaten at the time of his arrest and had not been seen since. Other relatives described the case of two brothers who had been arrested in Tlapa in December 2000