E/CN.4/1992/17 page 22 (b) Héctor Roberto Manotoa, 20 years of age, a conscript in the Eloy Alfaro Military School of Quito. On 17 May 1990 he was questioned along with other conscripts for the alleged theft of a recorder. The conscripts were forced into a water tank in which electric wires had been placed and caused shocks. A lieutenant was also reported to have beaten Manotoa. He remained in a military hospital for seven days to recover from his injuries; (c) Guido Israel Joyos, a soldier 23 years of age, was arrested on 23 May 1989 and charged with leaking confidential information to subversive groups, stealing two rifles and deserting from the army. For 36 days he was allegedly kept inside a metal container exposed to the sun and beaten up. During his trial he disavowed the confessions that he had made during the interrogations and claimed that they had been extracted from him under torture. 70. In letters dated 26 March and 6 May 1991 the Government repeated its desire to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and provided the following information on the cases transmitted on 14 February 1991: (a) Regarding the cases of Sufrido lives Camacho, Segundo Chimbay Zhinin, Gonzalo Quintero Mina and Carlos Alberto Juela Molina, proceedings were instituted against the policemen charged with ill-treating these persons; (b) In the cases of Héctor Mejía, Segundo Cajilema, Segundo Criollo, Nicolás Paguay, Carlos Chicaiza, Segunda Guamacayo, Mariana Ayora, Martha Pérez, Gerardo Tascan, Juan Francisco Roca Ospina, Leonor Estupiñán, Liliana Ortíz, Dora Lilia Coral, Jeanette Estupiñán and Claudia Ruiz Morales, the complaints of ill—treatment are being investigated by the competent legal authorities; (c) In the cases of Saulo Cuesta, Cesáreo Chaguay Vargas and Manuel Mesías Naiquez, the Government made reference to the criminal trials in which these persons appear involved but makes no mention of any inquiry into ill-treatment; (d) Guido Israel Hoyos Toscano was visited in custody, at the request of relatives, by a Red Cross doctor, who found no evidence whatever of ill-treatment; the Court of Constitutional Guarantees declared itself incompetent to try the case and ordered the documents filed away; (e) In the case of Antonio Espín López there was no report of ill-treatment or of unjustified detention; (f) In the case of Roberto Manota Manota, the Government stated that legal proceedings have been instituted against the persons involved in the ill—treatment. 71. In a letter dated 18 October 1991 the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government information on the cases of the following persons who were also alleged to have been tortured: