CAT/C/75 page 17 water from a hose. The police told them they must inform the public attorney that they had organized the theft, and should each blame the other. The following day they were beaten. The medical officer at the public attorney’s office certified that they were uninjured, contrary to the findings of the Commission’s medical officer (recommendation 18/2000). 58. Samuel Ramos Roblada, Rosario Elías Padilla, José Roblada Michel and Sebastián de la Cruz Roblada were detained in Cuautitlán de García Barragán on 18 February 1999 by members of the State judicial police who, at the building shared by the public attorney’s office and the judicial police, beat them and put them in a trough of water through which they repeatedly passed electricity. The police put pressure on the municipal medical officer not to report the electrical burns or the beatings (recommendation 3/2001). 3. Federal District Human Rights Commission 59. The President of the Federal District Human Rights Commission told the Committee members that, while the number of cases in the Federal District had declined in the last 10 years, torture had not been eliminated. Although the web of complicity and withholding of evidence within the Office of the Attorney-General made it very difficult to obtain convictions, convictions had nevertheless been secured in four cases covered by Commission recommendations. 60. According to its seventh annual report (October 1999 to September 2000), in the seven years it had been in operation, the Human Rights Commission had recorded 92 cases of torture and issued 15 recommendations. The report also mentions the following cases of torture on which recommendations were issued during the period under consideration. 61. Luis David Villavicencio Mares was detained on 1 August 1998 in the Federal District and taken to judicial police investigations office No. 50 in Arcos de Belén. There he was beaten, dislocating his shoulder, a plastic bag was placed over his head and he was forced to drink water, after which he was hit in the stomach. The medical officers of the Attorney-General’s Office itself and of the Human Rights Commission confirmed the injuries (recommendation 3/99). 62. A person detained on 14 September 1988 in Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in the Federal District, by members of the Department of Public Security’s financial and industrial police, resisted arrest and was subjected to a beating that resulted in internal abdominal injuries (recommendation 7/99). 63. José Luis Méndez Briano and Fernando Martínez Beltrán were detained on 24 June 2000 and taken to the Gustavo A. Madero district offices of the judicial police. They were beaten repeatedly, particularly about the ears, and as a result had to be hospitalized. The recommendation that the Federal District Attorney-General should launch a preliminary investigation into torture offences was not accepted (recommendation 7/2000). 4. Oaxaca State Human Rights Commission 64. The fourth report of the Oaxaca State Human Rights Commission, which covers the period from May 2000 to April 2001, lists the five recommendations issued by the Commission in torture cases since 1994. However, like the third annual report, covering the period from