E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 143 have stayed some 15 days. There, he was allegedly beaten with pieces of cable and iron bars, as well as kicked, to punish him for having escaped from Imigrantes. It is reported that he was subjected to such beatings every day for 15 minutes at the change of duty guard shift. He was said to be forced to take cold showers to make the marks disappear and he was sometimes held in a pitch dark cell. He, like other minors, was allegedly forced to stay seated in silence all day long with both his hands behind his head. At night, it is reported that he was not given a mattress and had to sleep with some 15 other adolescents in a small room on the concrete floor. He was reportedly not always allowed to go to the toilet when he requested. He was said to have been told that his family had been informed of his arrest, which he discovered later was not true. According to the information received, he was not produced before a prosecutor because he was not charged with any new offence for having run away from a FEBEM institution. He was then reportedly taken to the Pinheiros juvenile detention centre, where he was beaten with iron bars and cables upon arrival for half an hour. He was then said to have been taken to a pitch dark room, where he stayed alone for some 10 days, being only allowed two or three times a day to go to the toilet. He was then allegedly taken back to a cell containing eight concrete beds for 16 detainees. According to the information received, when the guards were on drugs or drunk, the detainees were beaten, kicked and punched for no reason. This is said to happen mainly at night. In three months, he is reported to have seen his family only three times. He was then said to have been transferred to São André juvenile detention centre, where he stayed for the first two days in a dark cell. Five or six days later, he was allegedly beaten. At this point, desperate, he is believed to have asked the guards to kill him. Then he was transferred to the Criminological Observation Centre (COC) of Carandiru, where he is believed to have stayed for two months. On 5 or 6 July 2000, a revolt is said to have occurred in the COC, where 98 minors were said to be held at that time. The military police is reported to have intervened, as well as the mob control units. According to the information received, the revolt was provoked by the fact that the prison guards had called in the mob control units to undertake a cell search. The prison guards are believed to have claimed that the detainees were armed with iron bars. The Director of the COC is said to have been present throughout the revolt. All the minors were reportedly taken to the yards and forced to undress. Fearing that they would be beaten, they are believed to have refused. The mob control and military police officers are then reported to have started beating the adolescents and to have fired rubber bullets. At the time of the interview (23 August 2000), two marks consistent with the allegations were still visible on his body. The beatings and shootings in the courtyard are said to have lasted for four hours. The adolescents were then allegedly forced to run through a Polish corridor to go back to their cells. 311. Samir de Luisa Rodriguez, aged 19, was reportedly also present during the alleged revolt in the COC on 5 or 6 August 2000 and was subjected to similar treatment. 312. L.H.F.A. is said to have been transferred to the Franco da Rocha detention centre at the time of its inauguration. After a revolt had reportedly taken place on 14 August 2000 in the surveillance unit of another FEBEM detention centre, both the minors and the guards from that unit had been transferred to the education unit of Franco da Rocha. After that move, detainees were said to have been hit for little apparent reason, such as talking to each other. For one week, from 15 to 22 August 2000, detainees were reportedly not let out of their cells. On 14 August 2000, L.H.F.A. was allegedly beaten by seven or eight guards. They reportedly forced him into a corner, beat his right arm, left foot and right knee with a metal bar, hit his head