E/CN.4/1992/17 page 11 Chile Letters 39. On 17 April 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Chile transmitting information on cases of torture and ill-treatment which reportedly occurred between March and December 1990. The letter mentioned the following cases: Fernando Concha Galvez, Iván Concha Pizarro, Erwin Rivera Castillo, Pedro Felipe Ramirez Chaparro, Lino Enrique Palma Insulza, Vladimir Ernesto Salamanca Morales, Rodrigo Morales Salas, Alvaro Rodríguez Escobar, Sergio Vásquez Barrientos, Ester Alfaro González, Abraham Larrea Zamorano, Catalina Avila Lazo, Wilson Rojas Mercado, Rodrigo Saa Gerbier, Yuri Aliro Vargas Araya and Jorge Antonio Espinóla Robles. These people were reportedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment at various police stations and, among other things, were kicked and punched in different parts of the body, strung up for long periods by their wrists, deprived of food, water and sleep, suffered electric shocks to the sensitive parts of the body, near suffocation from plastic bags placed over their heads, "submarino seco", threats against them and their families, arid mock executions. In the case of Jorge Antonio Espinóla Robles, who was held at the Santiago Third Police Station, it was reported that, under the remedy of amparot a request was made that a doctor should be sent urgently to the police station from the Forensic Medicine Department. The doctor observed that the detainee had various injuries which could only be explained by bullet wounds received when he was detained and by ill-treatment. 40. On 18 October 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a second letter to the Government of Chile transmitting information to the effect that, despite the legislative measures adopted by the Government, torture was still being used by members of the Carabineros and the Police Department. The majority of the cases communicated involved members of armed opposition groups, in particular the Lautaro Youth Movement and the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, but also people who were arrested as a result of peaceful demonstrations or in connection with criminal investigations. In particular the following cases were transmitted: (a) Jaime Patricio Celis Adasme, Jaime Iván Pinto Aglioni, Julio Ricardo Prado Bravo, Marcela Laura Mardones Pacheco and Patricio Alejandro Gallardo Trujillo, who were arrested between 6 and 10 July 1991 in Concepción by officers of the Police Department; (b) Iván Andrés Cordova Cordova, arrested on 27 May 1991 and taken to the San Luis de Macul Police Station; (c) Galia Gimpel Martinez, arrested on 20 May 1991 by carabineros and taken to Station No. 18 in Santiago; (d) Lucio Eduardo Maldonado García, arrested on 15 May 1991 by the carabineros and taken to the police station in La Victoria, Santiago; (e) Angel Patricio Muñoz Faundez, arrested by carabineros on 29 April 1991 in Cerro Navia, Santiago and taken to the carabineros station in San Pablo;