CAT/C/75 page 73 17 Commission for the Defence of Human Rights (CODDEHUM), 10th annual report, pp. 25, 35 and 36. 18 The State of Tamaulipas has no specific law prohibiting and punishing torture. The inadequate definition given in article 213 of the State Criminal Code allows an interpretation that restricts torture to cases in which the aim is to obtain information or a confession of guilt, or to compel a certain kind of behaviour. 19 Tamaulipas State Human Rights Commission: Annual Report, 1999, p. 48. 20 In connection with this case, the Office of the Procurator issued recommendation 1/2002 of 18 January 2002. 21 See paragraphs 48, 59, 67, 69 and 124. 22 (Rec. 3/2001, Jalisco.) 23 Ibid., pp. 22-23. 24 Recommendation 5/2000, Office of the Baja California State Procurator for Human Rights and Civic Protection, p. 10. 25 See above, paragraph 36. 26 Ibid., pp. 42-43. 27 Seventh annual report, October 1999-September 2000, p. 133. 28 See paragraph 75. 29 Tamaulipas State Human Rights Commission: Annual Report, 1999, pp. 22-23. 30 Initial report: CAT/C/5/Add.7 dated 10 August 1988, considered by the Committee at its second session, summary records CAT/C/SR.16 and 17, April 1989; second periodic report (first additional): CAT/C/17/Add.3 dated 21 July 1992, considered by the Committee at its ninth session, summary records CAT/C/SR.130, 131 and 131/Add.2 of 17 November 1992; supplement to the second periodic report, CAT/C/17/Add.17, dated 28 May 1996; third periodic report, CAT/C/34/Add.2 dated 25 June 1996, considered by the Committee at its eighteenth session, summary records CAT/C/SR.285, 286/Add.1 and 289 of 20, 25 and 26 November 1997. 31 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth session, Supplement No. 44 (A/48/44), para. 228. 32 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second session, Supplement No. 44 (A/52/44), para. 162.