POLITICAL PRISONERS TORTURED IN BRAZIL:
The September 15 Correio da Manha, a daily newspaper of Rio de Janeiro, scored the brutal treatment of politioal prisoners by the military government .
According to Hermano Alves, the newspaper's correspondent, Waldir Ximenes, the former president of a colonization company in Pernambuco, was in a military hospital under treatment for burns, broken ribs and spinal injuries. following torture.
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Gildo Rios, former deputy for economic affairs, suffered. . ruptured ear drums as the result of a beating.
Dr. Fernando Castro, former seoretary of health inthe munici~ . pal government of Recife, was struck in public by army officers,
Correio da Manha also reported that Manuel Nazareno da Silva, who was appointe rector of. railways in the Northeast by the mili- | tary government, was disciplined for having called on Pernambuco!s. © ex-governor Miguel Arraesa too often, oo Po
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