E/CN.4/1992/17 page 36 (d) Francisco Reyes Bonilla, arrested by the police and presumed to have been tortured at the DNI; (e) Francisco Lagos Holman, arrested by the police and presumed to have been tortured for five days. 111. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Honduras transmitting information about the cases of Angel Maria Bonilla Donaires, Victor Manuel Ramirez and Leónidas Ramirez, who were reportedly arrested in February 1991 and tortured by members of the Public Security Force (FUSEP). 112. On 18 October 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Honduras transmitting information to the effect that there were numerous cases of torture of persons arrested unlawfully and interrogated at military posts. The methods most often used included keeping the prisoners handcuffed and blindfold over long periods, depriving them of food and water, beating them on the soles of the feet and other parts of the body, stringing them up by their wrists and heels, suffocating them, using electric shocks, and psychological pressure such as threats to arrest and torture members of the family. In some instances threats were used to prevent the victims from reporting the torture. It was also said that torture was used not only on persons charged with offences for political reasons but also on peasants involved in land disputes or persons accused of common crimes. In addition, steps are often taken to prevent any marks of torture being left on the victim's body or to make sure the torturers are not identified later on. The following cases, in particular, were transmitted to the Government: (a) Marcos Reinero Castro, Eduardo Salguero, Gilberto Calderón, Oscar Gómez, José Santos Flores, Servando Galeas Banegas and Osmán Flores, arrested between 18 and 24 January 1991 by members of the Public Security Force in Sulaco, Yoro; (b) Manuel Corrales Alvarez, Carlos Martín, Eugenio Cruz Chavarría, José Eduardo Hernández, Efrain Bonilla and Darío Martínez Figueroa, peasants arrested on 14 December 1990 in Pisijire, Olancho, by a group of FUSEP officers; (c) Liliana Esperanza López, arrested on 31 January 1991 and taken to the DNI; (d) Ramón Bartolo Espinol Amador, arrested on 16 October 1990 and taken to the DNI in Tegucigalpa; (e) Manuel Castillo Reyes, arrested on 10 April 1990 in El Higuito, municipality of Cololaca, Lempira, by members of the Special Forces Battalion and taken to the unit in Cucuyagua, Copan; (f) Osmar Eugenio Urquía, arrested on 12 November 1990 by DNI and FUSEP officers and taken to the DNI in Esperanza, Department of Intibuca; (g) Maria Antonia Ramos de Linares, arrested by the DNI on 24 May 1990 in Santa Rosa de Copan.