E/CN.4/1992/17 page 52 approximately 100 villagers, including women and children, on 5 May 1990, the president of the town council, Salomón Mendoza Barajas, was in turn detained when he went to the police station to protest. He was then subjected to various tortures and charged with homicide and possession of weapons and drugs. Carlos Valencia Morfin and Magdaleno Vera were also detained as part of the same incident and subsequently subjected to various tortures such as beatings, near-suffocation with a plastic bag, near-drowning, and squirting mineral water containing red pepper up the nose; (e) Angel Chávez Sánchez and his son Alberto Chávez Barroso were arrested on 13 November 1989 in the city of Chetumal and subjected to various tortures for 20 days in order to get them to admit participation in a kidnapping. A forensic expert subsequently found scars and signs of injury; (f) Marcial Rojas Lázaro, a Peruvian national, was arrested on 15 November 1989 by State Judicial Police officers in Tijuana, Baja California, and subjected to torture that included beatings, electric shocks and squirting mineral water containing red pepper up the nose; (g) Julio César Márquez Valenzuela was arrested on 4 September 1989 at Villahermosa, Tabasco, together with Jesús Manuel Martinez Ruiz, who died shortly thereafter. Mr. Márquez Valenzuela was subsequently released, arrested again on 13 October and taken to Tabasco, where he was allegedly tortured and accused of theft and homicide. The second arrest is thought to be a result of Mr. Márquez' complaint that he was tortured during his first detention and that torture caused Mr. Martinez Ruiz's death. The case was brought before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which was informed by the Government of the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission. According to the National Human Rights Commission, several members of the Judicial Police were accused of abuse of authority and homicide by the Government Prosecutor's Office and two of them were arrested, but no charges were retained against them by the court of first instance. The Commission recommended that all the police officers involved should be suspended and that a new trial should be opened, but they continue to hold their jobs. 154. On 6 August 1991 the Government provided the Special Rapporteur with the following detailed information on the above-mentioned cases, including the action taken by the Mexican National Human Rights Commission: (a) Rubén Oropeza Hurtado was arrested on 29 March 1990 for health offences. A report by Red Cross doctors subsequently revealed that he had been subjected to torture, which resulted in his death in October 1990. In that connection the Mexican National Human Rights Commission issued a recommendation, the most significant parts being: to suspend Federal Judicial Police officers Rafael Becerrill Zendejas and Alfonso Treviño Peña; to initiate the procedure for dismissal of those police officers; to send copies attesting the suspension and dismissal to the National Commission; to start the preliminary investigation and indictment of these persons; to complete the criminal proceedings and send a copy of the judicial decision to the National Commission. The Attorney-General of the Republic accepted this recommendation, dated 1 September 1990, and offered to investigate the alleged cases of torture undergone by Mr. Oropeza. In the meantime, instructions were