E/CN.4/1992/17 page 29 91. The Government replied in a letter dated 16 October 1991 stating in the cases of José Roldan Tobar Melgar, Vicente Sánchez Flores, Luis Alonso Zelaya Garcia, Aquilino Flores Hernández and Flor de Maria Hernández Rivas that they had been arrested on suspicion of belonging to terrorist groups. However, they had then been released and, when interviewed by delegates of the Commission on Human Rights, said that they had not been subjected to torture. 92. The Government also referred to the cases of José Oscar Medrano Orellana, Carlos Arturo Huezo Guzmán, Esperanza Garcia Valencia, Luis Alonso Argueta, David Mateo Sánchez Elias, Fernando Cartagena Dueñas, Rosa Portillo Hernández, José Alberto Calderón Fuentes, Ramón Ventura Bonilla, José Erasmo Montesinos Pineda, Jorge Gálvez, José Mauricio Menjivar, Saturnino de Jesús Mejia and Juan Gilberto Méndez. It said that these persons had been arrested and were later released; however, they had not been interviewed by delegates of the Commission on Human Rights before being released. The reply makes no mention of the complaints of ill-treatment. 93. In a letter dated 18 October 1991 the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government of El Salvador information received about cases of torture said to have taken place in the last months of 1990 and the first half of 1991. In each case, torture was said to have been used in connection with arrests on political grounds by the police or by military units. The following cases, in particular, were transmitted: (a) Vidal Ernesto Figueroa Henriquez, arrested in San Miguel on 14 March 1991 by members of the Treasury Police; (b) Tomás de Jesús Palacios, arrested on 3 April 1991 and transferred to the National Police in San Vicente; (c) Héctor Samuel Ramos Argueta, arrested on 14 March 1991 by members of the Treasury Police and transferred to the central barracks in San Miguel; (d) Basilio Chicas Majia, arrested on 19 February 1991 and taken to Military Detachment No. 4, Department of Morazán; (e) José Alberto Escobar López, arrested by policemen on 10 December 1991 and taken to the Ilobasco barracks; (f) Jose Vidal Barrera Pereira, arrested on 14 March 1991 by members of the Treasury Police in San Miguel; (g) Jorge Antonio Díaz García, arrested on 26 May 1991 by members of the National Guard in Colonia Santa Marta, San Sebastián district, Delgado, Department of San Salvador; (h) Manuel de Jesús Molina Gómez, arrested on 15 January 1991 by members of the National Police in San Salvador; (i) Teófilo Wilfredo Mejia Castro, from Acajutla, Department of Sonsonate, arrested by soldiers on 5 July 1991.