E/CN.4/2000/9 page 147 to Xoyamichal. When the party reached a river, he was allegedly held under water several times to make him confess to the above-mentioned acts. They then went on to Coyamichal where Arturo Ríos Morales had told them he was holding someone he had abducted. After finding that this was not true, it is alleged that the police officers beat him and two of them pointed a shotgun and a pistol at him. Getting no response, they decided to take him to the office of the State judicial police commander in the Jardín Sector. He was then reportedly held incommunicado from 24 September to 30 September, receiving food on only four occasions. The next day he was turned over to the government procurator for nonfederal offences in Atoyac de Álvarez to make a statement. The attorney Alanis Santos is alleged to have said, at first glance, that Arturo Ríos Morales "had not even been beaten". Arturo Ríos Morales reportedly stated that he had been tortured by Commander Javier Villalobos and men under his command. It appears that he also complained to the State Human Rights Commission which certified the following injuries: nasal abrasions around the septum, inflammation of the right posterior part of the head caused by a blunt instrument and abrasions on the right wrist, also caused by a blunt instrument. 744. In connection with the case of Arturo Ríos Morales, the Government noted that the Human Rights Commission had decided to open a dossier. The dossier is currently in the process of being compiled. 745. Elvia García Quiñonez, aged 18, is reported to have been arrested on 14 October 1998 by two members of the State judicial police in Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero State. She is said to have then been bundled into a patrolcar, roughed up and threatened. She was driven towards Acapulco and transferred into another vehicle in which she was beaten and threats were made. It is alleged that she was then taken to the Commander's office where she was handcuffed with her hands behind her back, blindfolded and beaten in order to extract a confession concerning a case of abduction. From there she was taken to Chilplancingo where she was ordered to cooperate and offered money if she would incriminate others. One of the officers is said to have told her that he had come from Mexico City with orders to kill her. Elvia García's head was allegedly forced into a water tank and she was beaten on the ribs; she was taken to a hotel in the suburbs of Chilplancingo where she was left handcuffed and blindfolded until the next day when she was taken back to Chilplancingo where she was tortured and threatened with death. When Elvia García told the officer in charge that two of her uncles were generals, he ordered his men to leave her alone and stop beating her. She is understood to have been released on 16 October 1998. 746. Lorenzo Téllez González was reportedly thrown to the ground and beaten by four members of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic (PGR) in Independencia Street, in the centre of Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero State, on 14 November 1998. He was subsequently blindfolded and is presumed to have been taken to Acapulco where he apparently received further blows and electric shocks. Lorenzo Téllez is said to have been threatened with death if he made an official complaint. Afterwards it became known that 12 other people from the Atoyac area had also been arrested, including Margarito Arreola. Threats were allegedly made to kill her 14-year old son if she did not confess to being a member of the People's Revolutionary Army. 747. According to information received from the Government, the PGR has not opened a preliminary investigation or a detailed report on the case of Lorenzo