E/CN.4/1993/26 page 37 144. Daniel Cardó Hernández, an inmate of the Boniato prison, was severely beaten in May 1991. He was later taken to the general police barracks in Havana and then rushed to the Carlos J. Finelay military hospital. 145. The Government states that the prisoner was not beaten on the date given or on an earlier or later date. 146. Jorge Nuard Rodríguez, an inmate of the Canaleta, Ciego de Avila prison, injected oil into his arms in order to receive medical attention. Instead of receiving assistance, he was sent to a punishment cell and stayed there 12 days. On 7 June 1991 at 2 p.m. he was taken from the cell unconscious and with gangrene in both arms. His arms had to be amputated at the shoulder. 147. The Government states that the prisoner injected the oil in the hope that the injuries would secure his release. He received immediate medical care, initially at the provincial hospital and later at the Morón hospital. His arms had to be amputated because of the danger of death from generalized sepsis caused by the gangrene. He was subsequently released on humanitarian grounds. 148. Pedro Luis Garcia, of Manacas, Villaclara, was struck by sergeant Alexis Olivera with a truncheon on 27 June 1991 in the Alambrada de Manacas prison. Other guards beat him with rubber truncheons. Covered with wounds he was shut up in an isolation cell. 149. The Government states that the prisoner was not maltreated by the prison authorities while in Manacas prison. This has been corroborated by Pedro Luis Garcia, who is now out of prison. 150. Mario Santana Fontela, of Santa Clara, was brutally beaten by a guard of section 2 of the Santa Clara provincial prison on 30 April 1991. 151. The Government states that the prisoner disobeyed orders on 30 April 1991 and refused to return to his cell. He attacked a warder who had to use his regulation truncheon to defend himself. The tribunal that investigated the incident found the warder had acted in the performance of his duty and in self defence to bring the prisoner under control. He had not gone beyond the bounds of duty. 152. Francisco Martes Sánchez, aged 16, of El Cerro, an inmate of Jovellanos, was forced to squat although he was known to suffer from asthma. When he refused he was brutally beaten and had to be rushed to the Colón hospital where he died on 20 July 1991. The authorities claim that he died of asthma. One of the people who took him to hospital alleges that he died of a brain haemorrhage caused by blows on the head and that his body was covered with haematoma. 153. The Government states that the prisoner's proper name was Francisco Montes Sánchez. The records, together with the testimony of witnesses and documents, show that the prisoner was the victim of a heart attack which caused his death while he was being taken to a treatment centre where he could