E/CN.A/1990/17 page 19 60. On 5 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the Government of El Salvador about Mr. Pedro Andrade Martinez, known as Commander Mario Gonzalez, a member of the FMLN Front, alleged to have been arrested by members of the National Police dressed in plain clothes and armed on 28 May 1989 in the Colony of Guadalupe de Soyapango, and brought before the judge of the Military Court of FirBt Instance on 6 June 1989. Mr. Andrade, who is alleged to be held in the general barracks of the National Police is reported to have been subjected to physical and psychological torture, including the repeated use of drugs and to have received threats against his relatives during his interrogation on 7 and 11 June 1989. 61. On 19 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of El Salvador transmitting information on cases of torture and ill-treatment alleged to have occurred in El Salvador in 1988 and 1989. Most of the acts allegedly occurred in rural areas in clashes between the forces of order and guerrilla movements. The following persons are said to have been subjected to torture or ill-treatment during their detention: Juan Antonio Morales Lucero, arrested on 13 July 1988; Jose Mauricio Menjivar Belloso, arrested on 16 July 1988; Jorge Humbert© Alas Marroquin, arrested on 27 July 1988; Antonio Castro Mejia, arrested on 28 July 1988; Jose Santos Gabino Martinez, arrested on 8 August 1988; Manuel Antonio ColindreB Panamefio, arrested on two occasions on 24 March 1988 and 12 February 1989; Alfredo Palacios Lemus, Social Welfare Secretary of the Union of Building Workers and Margarita Navarro, Public Relations Secretary of the Izalco Textile Trade Union, arrested on 26 January 1989. According to the information, as a result of his ill-treatment during detention, Mr. Palacios Lemus had to be transferred to a hospital where he was treated for fractures of the leg and had an abdominal operation. Further, according to information received, the following persons were arrested on 19 April 1989 by members of the Rural Police and taken to the central barracks in San Salvador where they were allegedly subjected to ill-treatment: Natividad de Jesus Acosta; Blanca Margarita Aleman; Rufino de Jesus Ardon; Isabel de la Paz Hernandez de Flores; Ana Lilian Gonzalez Vega; Juliana Hernandez; Reina Isabel Hernandez; Leticia Mendez Cruz; Maria Mirtala Lopez; Cruz Moreno Aguilar; Maria Trinidad Olmedo; Evelyn Mary Scarfe; Rosa Ana Ventura Perez de Aguillon; Marina Yudis Pena; and Hector Manuel Zapata Alvarez. Equatorial Guinea 62. On 2 October 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent a letter to the Government of Equatorial Guinea transmitting information concerning some 40 persons allegedly held in Malabo, Bata and the town of Ebebyin, and accused of taking part in a plot against the Government of Equatorial Guinea. All are reported to have been beaten and many subjected to severe torture, such as being forced to drink water containing detergent, having their heads immersed in buckets of dirty water and having electric current applied to the sensitive parts of their bodies. Some are reported to have suffered serious physical injury as a result of that treatment. The names of Jose Primo Esono Mica, Francisco Bonifacio Mba Nguema and Metodo Esono Andong Mba have been mentioned as having been brutually and severely tortured. Moroccan soldiers are said to have supervised some of the torture sessions which took place outside the public prison in Bata. During their trial, two prisoners, Ga6par Manana and Jesus Ntutuma, are said to have denounced the torture to the court and to have