E/CN.4/1992/17 page 9 31. On the same date, the Special Rapporteur also informed the Government of a report he had received regarding the human rights situation in the militarized region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. According to this report, people accused of being members of the Shanti Bahini (the armed wing of the underground political party Jana Samhati Samiti) were frequently arrested and severely tortured. Letters 32. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Belize concerning Luis Arturo Arévalo, a Guatemalan citizen, who was reportedly captured by the Special Branch of the Belizean security forces on 3 or 4 November 1990, allegedly subjected to torture and then handed over to the Guatemalan authorities. It was later reported that the Prime Minister of Belize had appointed a commission of inquiry to make a full and thorough investigation into the torture allegation. The Special Rapporteur asked the Government to inform him of the findings and conclusions of the inquiry. Brazil Letters 33. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Brazil transmitting information alleging that the practice of arresting people, subjecting them to torture and then releasing them without charge, was a common practice in the country. It was further alleged that those responsible for the torture, when they were identified and brought to trial, were often given very light sentences. To illustrate that allegation the sources reported the case of an agent named José Gaetano Pereira, who was convicted of committing torture and was sentenced, in August 1990, to three months' imprisonment by the judge of 1st Instance of Ipatinga, Minas Gérais State. The sentence was reportedly later commuted to six months' community service. Since then various people reported cases of torture alleging that the same agent was responsible. 34. Information was also transmitted regarding the case of a 16-year-old youth, named Domingo Vasconcelos Macedo, who was arrested by police in October 1990 at Rio Branco, Acre State, and taken to the 6th Police Station. He was later taken by military police to the 1st Battalion Headquarters where he was allegedly subjected to torture. 35. On 7 May 1991 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur of a draft law which was being considered by the Congress in order to include in the penal code the crime of torture as a crime against the democratic State and humanity Bulgaria Letters and Government replies 36. On 16 December 1990 the Government of Bulgaria sent a letter to the Special Rapporteur in reply to his letter dated 18 July 1989 (E/CN.4/1990/17, para. 3 6 ) , concerning allegations that several ethnic Turks died after being