E/CN.4/1992/17 page 96 own doctor concluded, upon examination, that he had been severely ill-treated. Mr. Austin also claimed that, before being released, he had received threats of further arrest and of execution by a loyalist paramilitary group. Venezuela Letters and Government replies 263. On 14 February 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Venezuela transmitting information received alleging that prisoners at the El Dorado labour camp had been subjected to torture, including electric shocks and blows with machetes covered with excrement, resulting in infected wounds. In particular, attention was drawn to the case of Amílcar Rodríguez Macías, described by the complainants as a political prisoner. It was reported that on 13 August 1990 he had been taken together with other prisoners from his cell to a place where he was tortured with electric shocks, blows and kicks. This torture was carried out in the presence of two doctors. The other prisoners were also forced to watch. 264. On 7 June 1991 the Government sent the Special Rapporteur the following information provided by the Human Rights Directorate of the Office of the Government Attorney: "In August 1990, a number of inmates held at the Venezuela general penitentiary were transferred by order of the Ministry of Justice to El Dorado prison, being accused of bad behaviour. After they were transferred, the Department of Public Prosecutions received various complaints from members of their families that they were not being held under proper conditions. They also complained that after the prisoners had been transferred to El Dorado, it was made difficult for them to visit the prisoners. As a result of these reports, various commissions from the Department of Public Prosecutions visited the prison to inspect the conditions under which the prisoners were being held and the state they were in. On one of these visits, Amílcar Rodríguez complained of having been ill-treated by officials, but there was no evidence to support his complaint and none could be found. Later, at the request of the Government Attorney's Office, the Ministry of Justice transferred the prisoners to the establishments they had come from. In the case of Amílcar Rodríguez, who is not a political prisoner as sometimes alleged but a convicted robber, he was transferred to El Junquito prison, where he recently declared himself to be in excellent condition and had no complaint about the conditions under which he was being held." Yugoslavia Letters 265. On 6 August 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Yugoslavia transmitting information alleging police brutality and ill-treatment of people by police in the Serbian province of Kosovo. The following detailed cases were reported: