E/CN.4/1992/17 page 16 (a) Germán Antonio Parada and Jairo José Jiménez Bautista were reportedly seriously tortured, after being arrested together with other persons on 29 July 1990 by members of the armed forces. Mr. Antonio Parada died and, according to one witness, his body showed signs of wounds and blows. Mr. Jiménez Bautista was released on 3 August 1990 and reported that he had been subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including a mock summary execution which had been staged by a lieutenant of the military base in Los Alpes. He also claimed that he had been compelled to declare before a judicial authority in Arboledas, before being released, that he had not been detained but that he had accompanied the soldiers as a guide of his own free will and that the bruises on his face had been the result of drunkenness 15 days before; (b) Gabriel Flórez, regional leader of the Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos, was arrested on 8 September 1990 by members of an army patrol in Montebello, in the municipality of Betulia, Department of Santander. He was held for three days and was allegedly severely tortured; (c) Carlos Lugo González, a student at the District University, was arrested on 4 October 1990 by police officers, during a demonstration in Bogotá. He was reportedly severely beaten by policemen while he was being taken to the Investigation Centre known as CAI. Afterwards he was taken to Police Post No. 5 and later to the Judicial Investigation Division (DIJIN), where he was not admitted because of multiple injuries, including some to his head. When the case was submitted to the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Lugo was in the Modelo prison, without knowing why he was being held. Cuba Urgent appeals and Government replies 52. On 25 September 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Cuba regarding à former•lieutenant""in State Security, Alejandro Joaquín Fuentes García, who was arrested during September 1991, after he tried to leave the country by boat from a spot on the north coast of Villaclara. He was taken to the State Security Intelligence Department in Santa Clara and, according to the information received, was badly beaten so that a kidney became detached. Furthermore, some days later, in the provincial prison of Villaclara, he suffered cardiac arrest when he tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide by hanging himself; information has none the less been received that he has been given no proper medical treatment. 53. In a note verbale dated 23 October 1991 the Government stated that Mr. Fuentes García had been arrested on 20 June 1991 when he was planning to leave the country illegally with five other persons and that he was awaiting trial. The Government also said that Mr. Fuentes García had been suffering from a kidney ailment for several years and that, during his detention, he suffered from nephritic colic but at all times received proper medical care and was never ill-treated or tortured. Letters and Government replies 54. On 6 August 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Cuba transmitting information on the following cases of torture: