E/CN.4/1992/17 page 35 serious physical and mental injury, and even death. The following persons are said to have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment in the period March-April 1991: (a) Philistin Auguste, a farmer aged 54, arrested on 4 March 1991 by a military unit in Obléon, the reason for the arrest allegedly being that he was the father of Lucien Auguste, wanted on charges of robbery. Philistin Auguste was taken to the Kenscoff military base, where he was reportedly tortured by the "djak". He was released on the same day but the medical report mentioned bruises in the small of the back and on the buttocks, a swollen left ankle, and a fractured fibula; (b) Lucien Auguste, aged 24, unemployed and the son of Philistin Auguste, and Joseph Nixon, aged 23, unemployed. Both were arrested on 4 March 1991. Lucien Auguste was reportedly tortured by the "djak". Both suffered injuries to the soles of the feet and to the ribs, as a result of the torture. They were brought before the Port-au-Prince Civil Court, then taken to the city's National Prison. Lucien Auguste was released in the course of June 1991, but Joseph Nixon is still being held at the Port-au-Prince National Prison, and receives no medical care. Honduras Urgent appeals 109. On 24 June 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Honduras concerning Mr. Santos Danilos Ramos and Mr. Santos Dagoberto Franco, arrested on 11 June 1991 by members of the National Directorate of Police (DNI) who reportedly accused them of being involved in a massacre on 3 May 1991 in Agua Caliente, Department of Atlántida. While they were held in the prison at Tela, Department of Atlántida, they are said to have been tortured to force them to agree to the charges against them. Letters 110. On 14 February 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Honduras transmitting the following cases of torture reported to have occurred in 1990; (a) Angel Arturo Escobar Lobo, arrested on 4 February 1990 in the municipality of Dulce Nombre de Culmí, by members of the DNI in Catacamas; (b) Rogelio Acosta, arrested on 25 March 1990 in El Progreso, Yoro, by soldiers stationed locally; (c) Medardo Márquez Argueta, a corporal on active duty in the Territorial Army, arrested on 3 March 1990 on charges of collaborating with the Salvadorian guerrillas. He was held incommunicado in the basement cells of the headquarters of the Territorial Army in Los Llanos de San Antonio, Márcala, La Paz;