E/CN.4/2001/66 page 166 Observations 843. The Special Rapporteur shares the concerns and endorses the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee on its October 2000 review of the fourth periodic report of Peru under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In particular, he draws the attention of the Commission to the following concerns and recommendations: Repeal of the 1995 amnesty laws and non-adoption of a new amnesty law (CCPR/CO/70/PER of 15 November 2000, para. 9); Concern about 15-day detention of suspected terrorists, drug traffickers and spies and need for compliance with the obligation to provide by law for appearance without delay before a judicial authority (para. 13); The need to take measures to improve bad prison conditions, in particular, by reducing the population of Lurigancho prison and closing Yanamayo and Challapaça prisons (para. 14); The need to amend the still persisting practice of year-long isolation of certain prisoners (para. 15). Philippines 844. By letter dated 5 October 2000, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information on the following individual cases. 845. Amador Matos was reportedly arrested at a checkpoint near Sityo Tubigon by a group of soldiers on 28 March 2000 on suspicion of being a member of the outlawed New Peoples Army (NPA). He is alleged to have been tied with a nylon rope and to have had a plastic bag put over his head in a method of torture known as the “dry submarine”. He was also beaten with the butt of a rifle, punched and subjected to mock execution. As a result of this treatment, Amador Matos admitted that he was visited by the NPA and given reading materials by them. Following this admission the soldiers are reported to have taken him to their camp, where he was tied to a tree. They allegedly left him there all night in the rain and he was forced to urinate on himself. On 29 March 2000, the soldiers are understood to have turned him over to the Philippine national police in Danao city. 846. Cesario Lebrilla, a community organizer of Kompas, Group of Urban Poor Organizations for Sustainable Development, is understood to have been abducted and tortured by unidentified military men on 8 January 2000. He was reportedly hit on the back of the head and forced inside a van, where armed military men, with armalite rifles, handcuffed and blindfolded him, and then beat him up. It is believed that he was detained inside Fort Boniface. During this period, his captors, who had their heads covered, allegedly beat him, poured gasoline on his back, plucked the hair from his moustache and banged his ears. He was consistently threatened with execution.