CAT/C/75 page 16 who had been detailed to keep watch on him in a safe house while he was under a curfew order. The torture consisted basically in burns to the back, inflicted to make him sign certain statements; 18 second-degree burns were found. During the same period, CNDH had received 144 complaints that it classified as cruel or degrading treatment. These cases were still open. 2. Jalisco State Human Rights Commission 51. The reports for 2000 and 2001 contain recommendations on the following cases in which the Human Rights Commission established violations of the right to physical integrity or the right not to be subjected to torture. 52. Jorge Alberto Gallegos Lupián was detained on 7 June 1998 in Guadalajara by judicial police under the authority of the Office of the State Attorney-General, who beat him and put a plastic bag over his head. The Commission’s medical expert confirmed the presence of injuries. The State Attorney-General was recommended to launch a preliminary investigation on grounds of abuse of authority (recommendation 4/2000 of 6 July 2000). 53. Ignacia de Jesús Cervera Horta was detained on 21 April 1999 by members of the Tonalá Department of Public Security, who beat her, breaking one arm and causing bruising in various places (recommendation 6/2000). 54. On 4 November 1993, 13 demonstrators belonging to a group known as El Barzón were beaten by members of the State Department of Public Security, which resulted in injuries of various kinds, some of them serious, according to a medical report by the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Science (recommendation 9/2000). 55. José Ventura Ríos García was detained on 22 August 1999 in Cocula by four members of the municipal police, who beat him. The relevant medical reports confirmed multiple bruising on various parts of the body caused by a blunt implement (recommendation 12/2000). 56. Jesús Cruz Briseño and Roberto Carlos Domínguez Robles, aged 14, were detained on 18 May 1997 in Jaluco, in the municipality of Cihuatlán, by members of the State judicial police. The police beat them, put their heads in buckets of water and made them do squats, to make them confess to complicity in the murder of a young man. The youths signed a statement in front of an official from the public attorney’s office, without reading it. The injuries were confirmed by the reports of the municipal and Human Rights Commission medical officers. Even though one of the minors informed the official from the public attorney’s office that his head had been put in a bucket of water, the official did not investigate (recommendation 15/2000). 57. Alejandro de Jesús Ramírez Yáñez and Guillermo Dávalos Roldán were detained on 30 November 1999 in Guadalajara by members of the State judicial police, whom they had approached to report the theft of an item belonging to them. Taking them to a deserted spot, the police bound them hand and foot, covered their faces with cloths and doused their faces with