E/CN.4/1995/34 page 92 477. In connection with the incidents in Chiapas the Government sent a copy of a report by the National Human Rights Commission of 22 February 1994 which summarized its findings regarding human rights violations. At that date the Commission had received 80 complaints of torture. The report states that, undoubtedly, various persons had committed human rights abuses in Chiapas, but they were all being investigated impartially and in depth. On 24 October 1994 the National Human Rights Commission sent another report to the Special Raporteur explaining the circumstances in which the above-mentioned persons had been arrested. With respect to some of them, it was reported that medical examinations had been conducted and that the persons in question bore injuries which were slight; in none of the cases was evidence found indicating that the persons had been subjected to torture. 478. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted to the Government the case of Valentín Mejía Domínguez, from Independencia Jiutepec, Morelos, arrested by the State judicial police on 29 January 1993 and allegedly subjected to torture. Follow up to cases already transmitted to the Government 479. The Special Rapporteur also advised the Government of new information he had received in connection with the cases referred to in the following paragraphs, which were transmitted in previous years. 480. On 21 August 1992, the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government a summary of the complaints received regarding David Cabañas Barrientos, Ana Maria Vera Smith and Blanca Lirio Muro Gampoa, who were arrested on 12 and 13 June 1990, allegedly subjected to torture, and were serving a sentence in the North Remand prison of Mexico City. On 16 November 1992 the Government reported on the action taken by the National Human Rights Commission in the cases and noted that the representatives of the claimants had not submitted the documents required by the Commission. The new information received by the Special Rapporteur reiterated that the above-mentioned persons, activists of the People’s Union Clandestine Workers’ Revolutionary Party (PROCUP) and the Poor Peoples’ Party (PDLP), and Felipe Edgardo Canseco Ruiz were held by members of the judicial police of the Federal District and subjected to such torture as electric shocks, near suffocation by application of a strong jet of water in their nostrils and placing of plastic bags over their heads. The torture was allegedly carried out to force them to reveal information about their political activities and confessions obtained under torture were used as incriminating evidence against them in subsequent judicial proceedings. The details of the injuries appeared in the report of the forensic physician attached to the records of the case. In their complaint of torture lodged with the National Human Rights Commission, they reportedly submitted in a timely manner evidence of the prolonged detention and certificates of the injuries they sustained. The Commission had also received a copy of the records of the case from the judge who had been hearing the criminal case since February 1991. Despite this submission, the Commission still had not expressed an opinion on the case. 481. On 18 October 1991, the Special Rapporteur informed the Government that he had received reports about the cases of Pablo Torres Hernández, Enrique Itehua Salas, Juan González Hernández and Hermenegildo Torres Cruz,