E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 125 information received, after a local newspaper published an article about the incident, he and his family were threatened with death several times. The police officers reportedly searched for him in the hospital where he was a patient. Anderson Crispiniano reportedly died on 17 July 2000. His body was exhumed on 24 August 2000. His father is said not to have authorized the exhumation of the body. It is reported that the results of the autopsy have not been conveyed to the family and the body is believed not to have been buried. Finally, the Special Rapporteur notes with concern that he had sent an urgent appeal on Anderson Crispiniano’s behalf on 7 July 2000 (see E/CN.4/2000/66, para. 187). 250. Wladimyr Alexandria de Castro, detained at the Dr. Serrano Neves Penitentiary Bangu III in Rio de Janeiro, allegedly tried to escape from the prison hospital on 26 December 1999. According to the information received, although he was suffering from tuberculosis, he was reportedly sent back to Bangu-III instead of to a hospital to punish him for his escape attempt. He was allegedly threatened with death by the prison’s military police chief. His request to be transferred to the prison hospital was allegedly denied. He is believed not to have received medical assistance despite his health condition. 251. Istali Leão Marinho, Eloécio Leão Marinho, Jair Pena and Marciano Pena, detained at Polinter in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, were allegedly arrested on 25 August 2000 under the accusation of having attacked a military police box to steal weapons. They were reportedly almost suffocated, kicked and threatened with death by military police officers. 252. Adriano Tokimitsu Oliveria Maia, a 26-year-old man detained at the Roberto Medeiros (Bangu) mental asylum penitentiary unit in Rio de Janeiro reportedly suffered from a problem in his ear. In August 2000, he allegedly asked a prison guard for some medicine. According to the information received, he was then verbally abused, kicked, punched and hit with a piece of wood by four guards who had entered his cell. His leg and his arm were allegedly broken. According to the information received, he was taken to hospital four days later. The doctor who attended him reportedly denounced the beatings to the Secretary of Justice. He is said to have been transferred to the Henrique Roxo insane asylum penitentiary unit. State of Rio Grande do Norte 253. Heridelso Medeiros de Souza, a municipal public servant, was reportedly handcuffed, punched and kicked by two military policemen in Natal on 17 August 2000. According to the information received, he had asked the military police to stop a fight among participants in an election rally. He was reportedly taken to a police station, where he was kept in a cell dressed only in his underwear. Before being released on the following morning, he was reportedly threatened and forced to ask for “forgiveness”. His lawyer is said to have denounced the case to the authorities and to the corregedoria of the military police, but no action is believed to have been taken. 254. Daniel Bezerra da Silva, was reportedly beaten in the military police station in Parque 13 ed Maio, Bairro Dix-Sept-Rosado, Natal, on 7 July 2000. According to the information received, the sergeant in charge of the station beat him up with a piece of wood, causing injuries later confirmed by examinations at the Forensic Medical Institute. After the