E/CN.4/1994/31 page 93 439. Nazario Edgar Flores Castro, Mining Federation, was arrested by 15 May 1992 and taken to the local week, during which he was reported instruments. organizational secretary of the National police officers at Yauli, Oroya, Junín, on police station. He was detained for one to have been severely beaten with blunt 440. Antártico Daniel Salas Córdova was arrested in the district of San Martín, Lima, on 27 April 1992 by members of the National Police. He was taken to a police station where he died a few hours later. The autopsy report allegedly attributed the death to suffocation as a result of physical violence. 441. Nancy Luz Pimentel Cuéllar, a student at Enrique Guzmán y Valle University in suburban Lima, was arrested at her home at Chosica on 10 October 1992 by members of the armed forces, beaten, and taken to DINCOTE. Among other forms of ill-treatment, electric shocks were applied to her fingertips and head until she fainted. She was released without charges and without acknowledgement of detention on 2 November 1992. 442. Martha Huatay Ruiz, a lawyer and a member of the Association of Democratic Lawyers and of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) Sendero Luminoso, was arrested on 17 October 1992. Before being sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court, she was tortured on the premises of DINCOTE. The Lima Bar Association was reported to have issued a public condemnation of this torture. 443. Commander Marco Antonio Zárate Rotta, Commander Enrique Aguilar del Alcázar, Major César Cáceres Haro and retired Major Salvador Carmona Bernasconi were arrested in November 1992 following an attempted coup d’état. They were reportedly held incommunicado for 10 days on the premises of the National Intelligence Service at Lima. They were all reported to have been subjected to such torture as beatings, electric shocks and being suspended. 444. Alberto Calipuy Valverde and Rosenda Yauri Ramos were arrested in March 1993 in the district of Angasmarca, province of Santiago de Chuco, department of La Libertad. They were found dead shortly thereafter in a deserted area. According to information received, they died as a result of ill-treatment inflicted at the military base. 445. Wigberto Vásquez Vásquez, President of the Committee for the Defence of the Interests of the People of San Ignacio; Plácido Alvarado Campos, President of the Provincial Federation of Rural and Urban Brigades; Víctor Morales Labán, President of the United Federation of Peasants and Brigades of San Ignacio (FUCASI); Crisanto Velásquez Flores, Director of FUCASI; Guillermo Granda Rodríguez, President of the Comittee of Agrarian Producers of San Ignacio; Guillermo Oyola Cornejo, secretary of the Provincial Federation of Rural and Urban Brigades of San Ignacio; Javier García Huamán, peasant; Benjamín García Huamán, peasant; Daniel Cruz Bautista, peasant; and Samuel Huamán Huamán, peasant. According to the information received, these 10 members of the Committee for the Defence of the Forests of San Ignacio, province of San Ignacio, department of Cajamarca, were arrested on 27 June 1992 by members of the police and subjected to such forms of torture as beatings, suspension or immersion of the head in water.

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