E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 84 Información recibida del Gobierno sobre casos incluidos en informes anteriores 450. En varias ocasiones en el pasado, el Relator Especial ha transmitido al Gobierno el caso de Manuel Manríquez San Agustín, preso, según las últimas informaciones, en la Penitenciaría de la Ciudad de México y sentenciado a varios años de cárcel presuntamente sobre la base de confesiones obtenidas mediante tortura. Con fecha 1º de diciembre de 1995, el Gobierno informó que en su recomendación 35/94 la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos estimó fundada la denuncia sobre tortura presentada por el Sr. Manríquez. Con este antecedente, la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Distrito Federal ejercitó, con fecha 15 de noviembre de 1995, acción penal en contra de dos miembros de la policía que, cuando ocurrieron los hechos, desempeñaban los cargos de comandante y subdelegado respectivamente de la policía judicial del sector Iztapalapa, por su probable responsabilidad en la comisión del delito de tortura. El 24 de noviembre de 1995, la Procuraduría General ejecutó las órdenes de aprehensión correspondientes. Mongolia Information transmitted to the Government 451. By letter dated 29 May 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information indicating that a number of persons held in prisons in Mongolia had starved to death or were suffering from malnutrition because they had received inadequate provisions of basic food. Of 90 deaths occurring in the country’s prisons from autumn 1993 to autumn 1994, between 15 and 30 were officially cited as having resulted from starvation. In a number of other cases of deaths caused by illness, malnutrition may have constituted a contributing factor. 452. The starvation of prisoners was attributed in part to the implementation of article 11.3 of the Law on the Prison Service and Custodial Sentence, which provides that "[p]risoners ... will be responsible, through labour, for the cost of food, clothing, bedding, and for power and heating of living quarters". As a consequence of Mongolia’s transformation to a market-oriented economy, many prison industries had become non-viable and the ability of prisoners to work for adequate rations was greatly hampered. The normal prison diet was said to provide prisoners with a low-calorie and imbalanced nutritional intake. 453. Many of those persons who had died in penitentiaries from starvation reportedly had been starving or malnourished already when they arrived from pre-trial custody. Their condition allegedly resulted from the practice of using food deprivation as a means to coerce a detainee into confessing to a crime. Prisoners failing to confess under interrogation were allegedly returned to their cells on reduced or no rations for several days before being returned for a further round of interrogation. The State Prosecutor reportedly found that 274 of 700 remand prisoners detained at Gants Hudag prison from April 1994 until late 1994 were suffering from malnutrition, and 7 had died.