E/CN.4/1989/15 page 17 army, with the complicity of a hooded c i v i l i a n on 16 September 1988. I t was alleged t h a t during the day they were brought with their hands t i e d t o an isolated area, where they were interrogated, subjected t o severe t o r t u r e and summarily executed. 75. The Government of the Philippines transmitted a l e t t e r on 6 June 1988 s t a t i n g that the Commission on Human Rights Regional Office in Tacloban City had s e t up an investigation team, but so far nobody had been found who had actually witnessed the k i l l i n g s . Regarding the cases of Rolando Matos, Rosalinda Albio, Andres Gabion and Fidel A. Alpez, the Government suggested that the r e l a t i v e s should write d i r e c t l y to the National Commission on Human Rights, however, the Commission had had no record of any complaint. The Government stated that i t would also i n i t i a t e an investigation of these cases. 76. Together with a l e t t e r of 29 September 1988, the Government of the Philippines submitted a report on the s t a t u s of the investigations of the case of Reynaldo Francisco and Hilario Bustamante by the Philippines Commission on Human Rights. I t was stated that the case required further i n v e s t i g a t i o n , since Bustamante had not yet fully recovered and as a r e s u l t had not been able to identify any of h i s abductors. Concerning the case of Rodiger de los Santos, the Commission on Human Rights team was s t i l l continuing i t s investigation and hoped eventually to come up with a protection programme for the witness so t h a t h i s abductors might be brought to court. As for the case of Andres Rio and Manuel Dotollo, the Commission considered that if i t found t h a t the evidence was sufficient to e s t a b l i s h a prima facie case, i t would f i l e the appropriate criminal charges against the respondents. 77. On 20 December 1988, the Government of the Philippines transmitted a l e t t e r s t a t i n g that the outcome of an investigation of a police b l o t t e r a t the police s t a t i o n of La Paz, Leyte, and the information gathered by the special i n v e s t i g a t o r , the regional officer of the Commission on Human Rights (region VIII), had provided no plausible basis t o warrant further investigation of alleged t o r t u r e and, in the absence of Rosalinda Albio, the case had been considered closed. Republic of Korea 78. On 6 April and 8 July 1988, l e t t e r s were addressed t o the Government of the Republic of Korea transmitting information alleging t h a t a group of 12 people (Park Chung-ryal, Lee Min-young, Wbo Jong-won, Mun Min-song, Lee Ui-hyop, Cho Jung-sik, Park Si-jong, Kim Jin-ho, Chon Won-ha, Lee Pyong-ju, Kim Hyon-kwon and Kim Ku-hyon) was arrested between 23 October and 4 November 1986. They were allegedly tortured by the Anti-Communist Bureau of the national police of Kyonggi Province in police s t a t i o n s in Inchon. 79. On 30 November 1988, another l e t t e r was addressed to the Government of the Republic of Korea transmitting information alleging that Choi Eung-sok was a r r e s t e d in early August 1987, because he had placed a wall poster in his barracks' l a v a t o r i e s condemning d i s c i p l i n a r y beatings of conscripts by officers and calling on fellow soldiers to join in a c o l l e c t i v e p r o t e s t . Furthermore, i t was alleged that he was arrested and interrogated by the m i l i t a r y security police attached t o his unit. Reportedly, during h i s interrogation he was beaten with his hands and feet t i e d and his mouth f i l l e d with small stones; he was also placed in a s t e e l drum f i l l e d with water, which was then beaten. He was t r i e d in l a t e 1987 by a m i l i t a r y court and sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment.