E/CN.4/1994/31 page 83 391. Another urgent appeal was transmitted to the Government on 19 May 1993 regarding Olga Torres Hernández, Roberto Palacios Sánchez, Manuel Escalante Magos, Alicia Enriqueta Altamirano Jacinto, Froylan Martínez Chagoya, Cirilo Hernández Rubio and Juan González Hernández. According to the reports, they were arrested on 16 May 1993 while demonstrating in Mexico City in support of a hunger strike by prisoners of the Reclusorio Preventivo Norte. Fears were expressed that they might be subjected to torture while held in incommunicado detention. 392. With respect to this case, the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that on 17 May 1993 some 30 people had visited the office of the National Commission for Human Rights to express their concern at the fact that a group of citizens had been evicted, apparently by personnel from the Secretariat General for Highways and Road Safety, from the place in which they were conducting a demonstration and hunger strike, and that their whereabouts were unknown. Subsequently, the Secretary-General for Highways and Road Safety had informed the National Commission that Mr. Torres Hernández, Mr. Palacio Sánchez, Mr. Escalante Magos and Mr. Altamirano Jacinto had been freed that afternoon, and that they had been taken to the Cuauhtémoc police station because they had committed administrative offences. This information had been corroborated by the complainants on 18 May 1993. The latter had also informed the National Commission on 3 June 1993 that the problem of the hunger strike had been solved two weeks previously. 393. The Government also informed the Special Rapporteur that in the interview with the citizens who sought the help of the National Commission for Human Rights in determining the whereabouts of their relations and friends, it had been established that they had contacted the National Commission not in order to lodge a complaint, but to request urgent assistance. They had been informed that if they wished to lodge a complaint concerning the violation of human rights, they should do so by reporting specific facts and indicating their wish that those facts should be investigated. The citizens had said that if they decided to lodge a complaint, they would do so at a later date. As yet they had not done so. Observations 394. The Special Rapporteur notes the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture adopted after its consideration of Mexico’s periodic report under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (A/48/44, paras. 226-229). He also notes with appreciation the seriousness with which the National Human Rights Commission appears to have considered complaints it has received. In view, in particular, of the concern of the Committee against Torture about the small number of torturers who have been punished, the Special Rapporteur would appreciate learning what official action has been taken in cases where the National Human Rights Commission has recommended official investigation and/or legal proceedings.