CAT/C/75 page 12 a weapon intended solely for Army use. The verdict was confirmed on appeal in October 2000 and, after amparo proceedings, reconfirmed in July 2001 by the Circuit Court. The Circuit Court took no account of the medical certificate issued in July 2000 by two foreign forensic experts belonging to Physicians for Human Rights Denmark at the request of Cabrera and Montiel’s lawyers, which stated that the findings of their physical examination tallied with the stated times and methods of torture employed. The report of torture submitted by the two men’s lawyers to the Public Prosecutor’s Office was referred to the Office of the Military Prosecutor. (d) Federal District 35. During their visit to Reclusorio Norte prison in the Federal District, the Committee members interviewed nine inmates who had been arrested between July and August 2001 and for whom the medical certificates issued on entry to the establishment referred to the presence of injuries. Three said they had not been tortured or ill-treated. Five said they had been beaten, sometimes hard, at the time of their arrest by police patrols or the municipal police. 36. One inmate said that he had been arrested by the judicial police who beat him even though he offered no resistance. The forensic physician had ordered him to be taken to hospital for chest X-rays. At the hospital he was given stitches but, the police officers prevented the X-rays from being made and tore up a prescription issued to him. On return to the police premises, a policeman had kicked him and forced him to do squat jumps. The medical certificate issued by the doctor assigned to the Department of Expert Services of the Office of the Federal District Attorney-General mentioned numerous bruises on various parts of the body and abrasions on both legs. (e) La Palma CEFERESO (Mexico State) 37. During their visit to the La Palma CEFERESO the Committee members interviewed six inmates. Of these, one man said that he had been arrested in October 1999 in the Federal District by men who had not identified themselves and whom he had been unable to see because he had been blindfolded throughout. He thought, however, that the men were judicial police and the place they took him to was a military camp. For several days he had been beaten, subjected to mock suffocation and given electric shocks while wrapped in a wet sheet, during which time he had been interrogated about his and other persons’ alleged membership of the Popular Revolutionary Army. 38. One of the interviewees said that he had been arrested by men from the Federal Preventive Police and the Army who, as a punitive measure, had shot him in the hand, as a result of which he had lost the use of a finger. Another man said that he had been arrested by staff of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic in August 2001, had been struck on the ears and had had a plastic bag placed over his head. The sixth inmate, who had been arrested in the Federal District in 2001 by staff of the Federal judicial police Organized Crime Unit, said that he had been beaten and threatened and that his nose and mouth had been blocked up with a rag to which water had been added until he nearly lost consciousness. 39. Two of the interviewees had been arrested in the Federal District on 9 and 10 May 2000 respectively by men from the Federal judicial police assigned to the Organized Crime Unit who had accused them of involvement in a kidnapping. In the vehicle taking them to the Office of the