E/CN.4/2000/9/Add.5 page 15 however, refer to marks left by restraints and finger marks made when she was subdued. Since 22 March 1999 she has been defended and assisted by her lawyers who have not complained that she was ill-treated. 67. The Government stated that Mikel Egibar Mitxelena (ibid., para. 920) was the alleged official of ETA and its supporting movement. In view of the apparently important statement he made in the course of the trial, it reported the case to various international bodies. On 29 July 1999, the Government informed the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the case, enclosing relevant documentation. On 14 December 1999 the Working Group examined the complaint and expressed its views on the matter (opinion No. 26/1999). 68. On 2 February 1999 five youths were arrested in Tolosa (ibid., para. 921) as alleged members of a certain group on the basis of a report mentioning only four of them. The Government does not know why Joseba Saralegui Sanz, arrested in the same circumstances, had not been included in the report. Iker Bea Hostein was arrested in the course of an operation against the presumed authors of the attack against the Tolosa courthouse. Transferred to Madrid, he was examined by the forensic surgeon who, in his report, states among other things that “the examination revealed handcuff marks on both wrists”. Further medical examinations were conducted on 3 and 4 February. On 4 February 1999, assisted by his lawyer, he made a statement before the judge to the effect that he had been ill-treated during his political detention. 69. Asier Urrestarazu Eguia (ibid., para. 923) was arrested on 2 February 1999. He was transferred to Madrid and, before making a statement before the judge, was given four medical examinations, the reports on which stated among other things that he “had been treated well during his detention”. At the end of his statement before the judge he stated, on being asked by his lawyer, that “although he had not been ill-treated at the police station or on police premises, he had been threatened”. 70. Concerning Ismael Fakhri Delgado (ibid., para. 923), the circumstances are the same as those described in the case of Bea Hostein. Following his arrest on 2 February, he was given a medical examination and said he had been treated normally. Subsequently he was transferred to Madrid and examined on two occasions by the forensic surgeon, whose report stated, among other things, that “his treatment had been good; indications of handcuff marks on both wrists”. On 4 February, in the presence of his lawyer, he stated before the judge that “… [the statement made to the police] had been obtained by means of threats and ill-treatment”. 71. Ricardo Peñafiel Echarri (ibid., para. 923) was arrested on 2 February 1999, together with the persons mentioned above. Transferred to Madrid, he was examined on three occasions by the forensic surgeon whose report relates among other things that “I was threatened and beaten about the head”; on 4 February, assisted by his lawyer, he stated before the judge “that he did not acknowledge any of the alleged unlawful activities described in the police declaration since his statement had been obtained as a result of threats and pressure by the police”. 72. José Ignacio Armendáriz Izaguirre (ibid., para. 925), Jesús María Gómez Ezquerro and Juan María Echavarri Garro were arrested on 27 March 1998 in a police operation in Pamplona for alleged collaboration with the ETA; the circumstances of their detention were similar. The Government stated that it had received only the complaint of José Ignacio Armendáriz Izaguirre,