E/CN.4/1992/17 page 37 113. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted the following cases of a number of persons said to have died as a result of torture in custody: (a) Sergeant Oscar Armando Ponce Morales, a member of Infantry Battalion No. XV at Silín, Colón, who died on 13 November 1990 after being tortured at the battalion barracks; (b) Eduardo Ramón Salgado, arrested on 2 March 1990 by the FUSEP in Santa Bárbara, Yoro; (c) Victoriano Castillo Euceda, arrested on 2 September 1990 on the stretch between Choluteca and Tegucigalpa by DNI officers from Choluteca; (d) Riccy Mabel Martinez, whose dead body was found at the bottom of a precipice on 13 July 1990, with marks of beatings and rape, by two members of the armed forces suspected of committing these acts. Letters 114. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of India transmitting information concerning the case of Mr. Ram Swaroop, aged 40, from Narela Delhi, who was arrested on 28 January 1991 in connection with an alleged theft in a Delhi electricity company in which he was employed. He was taken to the R.K. Purum police station, where he was reportedly interrogated by Sub-Inspectors Jog Raj and Jartar Singh. On 31 January 1991 Mr. Swaroop was taken to the Safdarjung hospital, where he died shortly afterwards. The police reportedly claimed that the cause of death was a sudden attack of tuberculosis, a disease for which he had been treated four years earlier. But his relatives, who saw the body some time later, alleged that it showed clear signs of severe torture. It was not reported whether an autopsy had been conducted and whether an investigation into the death circumstances had been initiated, or what were the findings of such autopsy or investigation. According to the source two unnamed policemen had been suspended following the incident. Indonesia Letters and Government replies 115. On 29 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Indonesia transmitting information according to which cases of torture occurred during 1990 in Indonesia, and particularly in East Timor, Irian Jaya and Aceh provinces, where rebel or separatist movements were said to be active. Alleged victims reportedly included student activists and members of groups in opposition to the Government, as well as common criminals. It was alleged that torture occasionally resulted in death and that it was perpetrated by local police authorities, as well as members of the national military. With regard to East Timor, it was alleged that anti-government activists were often subjected to torture or ill-treatment while they were held incommunicado in unofficial safe-houses or in detention centres of the security forces. The forms of torture or ill-treatment mentioned included beatings, burning with

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