A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 31 Para 25. Country Date 18/09/07 Type JUA Mandate SUMX; TOR Allegations transmitted On 19 May 2007, one of the detainees, José Pereira, aged 24, died. Whereas the autopsy report notes that the cause of death was pneumonia, other testimonies stated that the cause was the ill-treatment described above. Rodson da Silva Rodrigues, aged 28 years, Aurina Rodrigues Santana, aged 44, and Aurina’s son Paulo Rodrigo Santana, aged 19. On 21 May 2007, military police from the 48th Compañía Independiente de la Policía Militar del estado de Bahia (48th CIPM – Sussurana) invaded the home and tortured Paulo Rodrigo Santana and his sister (unnamed, 13 years old). Over a four hour period, police demanded that weapons, drugs, and money be handed to them, and they beat, punched and suffocated the youth with a plastic bag. Paulo was also abused with an iron bar, and hot oil was poured on his head. Aurina Rodrigues Santana brought the allegations of torture to the attention of the Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia, which were then reported in the media. Paulo asserted that the police had told him that attempts to bring the police to account would lead to the deaths of Paulo and his sister. The complaint of torture was presented to the órgano de fiscalización de la policía militar (Corregedoria) on 27 May 2007, and on 6 August 2007 Paulo and his sister provided testimony to the Corregedoria, insisting that they could identify the police officials involved. One week later, on 14 August 2007, Aurina, Paulo and Rodson were summarily executed in their home. The thirteen year old girl Government response