E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 94 119. Jose Jorge Cruz, who was detained at the theft and robbery police station in Belo Horizonte, was said to be suffering from pains in his stomach and back since the morning of 2 September 2000, and possibly pneumonia. He was said not to have received any medical attention. 120. Roni Ferreira Bernardes was reportedly suffering from a broken left foot, which was swollen, and, at the time of the interview at the theft and robbery police station in Belo Horizonte (3 September), had not been let out of his cell for 45 days. He was said not to have received any medical attention. 121. Carlos Adão de Brito had reportedly been arrested on 1 September 2000 by military and civil police officers, who are said to have beaten him and a number of his relatives in his own house. He was reportedly beaten by the officers over his left ear on top of a bullet which had lodged in his head. His wife, who was reportedly pregnant at that time, was said to have been slapped. At the Department of Investigation in Belo Horizonte, officers reportedly forced him to sign a confession indicating that he had been carrying a weapon. He was said to have been hit with a rubber truncheon (cocota), including on his back, for half an hour. His arrest was said to have occurred in the context of a surprise attack on the whole favela. On 2 September, he was reportedly hit on the head again and given electric shocks at the 3rd district Police station, located in the same building as the theft and robbery police station in Belo Horizonte. 122. Edmund Silver Boy, from Espirito Santo, had reportedly been arrested on suspicion of bank robbery. In 1999, he was said to have been subjected to the technique called “parrot’s perch” at the theft and robbery police station in Belo Horizonte. After speaking to Internal Affairs officers visiting the police station about three times, he was reportedly beaten again. At the beginning of August 2000, an officer reportedly burnt his right upper arm with a cigarette after he had talked to a corregedor. 123. Fabio Almeida Gomes and Denilson Antonio Alexandre were allegedly transferred on 24 August from the 4th district police station to the theft and robbery police station. It is reported that at the former they were organizing a revolt and were taken out of the cell. They were allegedly handcuffed with their hands behind their back and beaten with pieces of wood and rubber on the head, eyes and back and kicked for two and a half hours by a delegado and six or seven police officers. 124. Eder Fabio da Marciano, was allegedly beaten over the head with a chair in the theft and robbery delegacia of Belo Horizonte. It is reported that as a result of the beatings he is now mentally disabled and has vision trouble. At the time of the visit (3 September 2000), it was obvious to the Special Rapporteur that Eder Fabio da Marciano had lost his faculties and that his life would have been in danger had his co-inmates not cared for him. According to the information received, a witness saw police officers interviewing him on 23 August 2000 and hitting his head numerous times with a chair until it broke. 125. André Luis Alvez Caetano was reportedly arrested in August 2000 by five military police officers, taken to a dark street and beaten with wooden nightsticks for more than an hour. It is reported that he was later taken to the theft and robbery police station where he was