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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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