E/CN.4/1990/17 page 8 Brazil 33. On 17 March 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Brazil concerning information alleging that 22 persons, including a priest, had been arrested on 11 March 1989, during a state military police operation to expel some 600 peasant families from land they had occupied in Fazenda Einira, Salto de Jacui, State of Rio Grande do Sul. The 22 persons arrested were allegedly beaten after their arrest and tortured by being staked to anthills. They were' taken to the local prison in Sobradinho, where they were allegedly still being held incommunicado, by order of a judge. The detained priest was named as Father Paulinho Ciorili (or Cirioli). The other detainees were named as follows:Leonir Marcon, Joao Tarcisio Schwap, Amarildo Zanovello, Eny Luiz Vinck, Ademir Nunes, Norberto Da Silva, Joao Carlos Camargo, Jose Da Rosa Silva, Antoninho Martes, Valdir Dias Rodrigues, Nelson Fortela, Joao Batista Serpa, Osmar Pretik, Helmut Hering, Hamilton Soares, Valcir Dallacosta, Gaudencio Da Motta, Ismael Ribeiro, Marilo de Bortolli, Joao Fernando dos Santos, Antonio Moacir Rocil. It was also reported that 30 people had been seriously injured during the operation, and that two were in critical condition in intensive care, allegedly after being beaten. They were Brother Sergio Gorgen, a member of the Franciscan congregation, and Joab Maria Menezes, a rural worker. 34. On 19 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Brazil transmitting information concerning the following cases of alleged torture: (a) Jose Carlos de Souto Finheiro, aged 25, and Evaldo Berto da Silva, aged 23, were reportedly arrested on 6 June 1989 by police in Cachoeiras de Macacu, State of Rio de Janeiro, and taken to police station No. 126, on suspicion of having stolen a bicycle. They were allegedly beaten and tortured by electrocution and attempts at strangulation; (b) Unica dos da Frata, allegedly Fenelon Lins Filho, a trade unionist affiliated with the (Central Trabalhadores (CUT) (Brazil) was detained on 14 June 1989 in Lagoa State of Minas Gerais, and held for 45 hours, during which he was severely beaten by 10 policemen. 35. On 16 November 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Brazil transmitting information alleging that Ivan Brito de Assis, aged 24, a leader of the Movimiento Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) was arrested on 29 August 1989 by two policemen who took him to the police station in Quebrangulo. There he was allegedly stripped and interrogated and at the same time subjected to torture, which included the "parrots perch" (when the victim is suspended upside down from a bar), electric shocks all over his body, suffocation and tying a rope around his testicles. Throughout the period in which he was in police custody he was allegedly intimidated and threatened with death. Bulgaria 36. On 18 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Bulgaria transmitting information alleging that an unknown number of persons had died, allegedly after being beaten by members of the