E/CN.4/2000/9 page 116 seven other men arrested were later released. One of them, José de Andrade, was allegedly beaten unconscious in custody and needed hospital treatment upon his release. Rafael, from Malilait village in Bobonaro sub-district, Bobonaro district, was reportedly arrested at the Tuno Bibi-Maliana bus terminal, also on 12 April 1999. ABRI soldiers from the Bobonaro Military Command were reportedly involved in his arrest and his whereabouts were unknown. 591. On 28 April 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on behalf of a number of persons living in East Timor who had allegedly been exposed to death threats and torture since 5 April 1999. In particular, it was alleged that paramilitary troops and the Indonesian Armed Forces threatened a community of around 1,000 families of internally displaced persons in Asumanu, Ermera, who had fled their homes in Liquica. Antonio Barbosa, Alfredo da Silva Alpha, the coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission in Aileu, Domingos Dias dos Santos, Joaquim dos Reis, Gido ramos Ribeiro, Gregorio da Silva, Antonio da Silva Guturres, Pedru da Costa Alves and Manuel Freitas were later released. 592. On 7 May 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Edi Rohadi, Taufik Edi Sapurta and four other men who were identified as Naiman, Solehudin, Samsudin and Jahid. The six men were reportedly arrested without warrants and had their houses searched, also without warrants, in connection with two bomb explosions and a bank robbery in April 1999 in Jakarta. All six men had reportedly been held at the Jakarta Regional Police Headquarters (POLDA). 593. On 27 May 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Roberto da Carmo, the Commander of Region II of the Timorese National Liberation Army, Falintil, and Gaspar Lopes, a Falintil member, who was reportedly arrested on 19 May 1999 by the police in Aileu, and then transferred to the regional headquarters (POLDA) in Dili, where he was detained. Both were known supporters of independence for the territory of East Timor and both were allegedly beaten in custody in Aileu and Dili, and suffered bruised and swollen faces. 594. By the same urgent appeal the Special Rapporteur intervened on behalf of Luis Avarisdo Lopes, an internally displaced person who had fled to Dili, and was reportedly arrested in Metiaut on 24 May 1999 by a "local leader" of the eastern part of Dili. After his arrest, he was reportedly handed over to the Military Intelligence Unit, Satuan Tugas Intelijen. 595. Finally, the Special Rapporteur also intervened on behalf of Jacob Martins Reis Fernandes, head of the Hatiola sub-district of Ermera district, in the territory of East Timor, who had reportedly been arrested and taken to a military post, possibly in Ermera, on 17 May 1999. He was reportedly accused of supporting Falintil after he reportedly made public statements criticizing the killing of a group of internally displaced persons some months previously. He was allegedly publicly threatened by the leader of the Aitarak (Thorn) militia and a deputy commander of all the paramilitary units in the territory of East Timor. 596. On 10 July 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on behalf of 20 people who had reportedly been arrested by the Indonesian National Army (TNI)