E/CN.4/2000/9 page 117 on 9 July 1999 in Teunom sub-district, Aceh province: Abdullah, Adanan Abdullah, Ansari Juned, Bahri Insya, Bakhtiar Razali, aged 17, Helmi Zukifli, Junaldi Ismail, Amin, Marzuki Syamsuddin, Husen, Muslidar Sabirin, aged 17, Mustafa Hasyem, Nazir M. Diah, Nurdin Ibrahim, Ramil Amin, Rasyidan Yusof alias Si Yem, Razali, Si Bit A. Rani, Si Yan Lem Badai and Zainuddin Syafli, aged 17. They had reportedly been arrested on the basis of claims by the TNI that the armed opposition group Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), was using the area around the plantation where the arrests took place. All 20 were reportedly detained at the District Military Command (Kodim) in West Aceh and denied access to lawyers. 597. On 23 July 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman of the Working Group on Enforced or Arbitrary Disappearances on behalf of two persons whose whereabouts were unknown. Jamaluddin Umar from Meuria Paloh village was reportedly arrested at Point Arun Ngl on 20 July 1999 by a joint team of soldiers of the Indonesian National Army and members of a riot control police unit, known as the Petugas Penindak Rusuh Massa (PPRM), and Izwar Puteh, a humanitarian aid-worker in the internally displaced persons camp of Mureudu, was reportedly arrested on 17 July 1999 by members of the same riot patrol. 598. On 23 July 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Ayub Hasan, who was reportedly among a group of seven people driving to an internally displaced persons camp at Mereudu, where they had planned to attend a meeting on health conditions in the camp. They were arrested by members of a riot control police unit, the PPRM, at Trienggadeng in Pidie district, Aceh province, Sumatra, on 17 July 1999. They were allegedly held at a PPRM camp and then moved to an Indonesian National Army (TIN) detention facility. Five of the persons were reportedly released on 19 and 20 July 1999. Ayub Hasan reportedly remained in custody at the District Military Headquarters (Kodim) in Pidie district where he had reportedly been beaten and suffered head injuries. 599. On 5 August 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Muzakir Bin Ustad, Nurdin Bin Ustad Ahmad, Yusuf Haria and Ridwan, who had reportedly been arrested on 31 July 1999 by members of the Indonesian Army in Lhok Seutui and Tanah Hambu Aye villages, North Aceh, on suspicion of being members of the Free Aceh Movement. They were allegedly held in incommunicado detention at the Baktiya sub-District military command (KORALMI) in Alue Le Puteh. 600. On 6 August 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Roberto da Carmo, a Commander of Region II of the Timorese Armed Resistance, Falintil, and Gaspar Lopes, a member of Falintil. They were reportedly arrested on 19 May 1999 and detained in Aileu and at the regional police headquarters (POLDA) in Dili, where they were allegedly ill-treated and suffered bruising and swelling to their faces. Gaspar Lopes reportedly coughed blood as a result of his alleged ill-treatment in custody. 601. On 8 September 1998, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Representative of the Secretary General on internally displaced persons and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions regarding the massive violations occurring in East Timor. Attacks by regular and irregular armed elements had reportedly resulted in the killing of over 100 individuals, widespread infliction of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, the