E/CN.4/1990/17 page 38 peasant; Hanoret Vasquez Vargas, a 17-year-old peasant; Milo Almandoz Leandro Paucar, a 24-year-old peasant; Gil Ronal Leandro Paucar, aged 31; Nelson Salgado Evangelista, aged 36; Juan de Dios Atachahua Garay, aged 39; Primitive) Espinoza Barrios, aged 36; Libio Egoavil Saavedra, aged 21, and Felix Laurencio Ubaldo, aged 47. These people were reportedly arrested on 26 June 1989 in the district of Ahucayacu, Province of Leoncio Prado, Department of Huanuco, by soldiers and taken off in three military helicopters to an unknown destination. Concern has been expressed about the safety and physical state of these persons. 120. On 17 October 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the Government of Peru about Doctor Wilfredo Saavedra, aged 33, a lawyer and president of the Cajamarca Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, said to have been arrested on 19 September 1989 by members of the technical police force when he went to see a detainee. On 26 September 1989 a special commission consisting of Pedro Ortiz Cabanilla, dean of the Medical Association, a number of doctors and parliamentarians, went to Cajamarca to talk with prisoners alleged to have been tortured. The commission reportedly found that Doctor Saavedra's wrists bore marks of having been bound and there were contusions on his body. Philippines 121. On 6 April 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of the Philippines transmitting information alleging that Mr. Samuel Sabidalas, the regional co-ordinator of the National Federation of Sugar Workers - Food and General Traders, had been arrested in Isabela (Negros) on 23 December 1988. While in detention, he was allegedly severely beaten during five days, as a result of which he was said to have suffered a skull fracture. 122. On 10 April 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of the Philippines concerning information alleging that Miss Belen Tabamo, 30, had been arrested on 10 February 1989 in a military encounter between the 16th Infantry Battalion and the so-called New People's Army. Miss Tabamo was located on 10 March 1989 at the 16th Infantry Battalion Headquarters, Barangay Baanan, Magdalena Laguna, where she had been transferred from another military camp. She had allegedly been subjected to ill-treatment, physical and psychological harassment and torture, and was said to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. 123. On 8 June 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of the Philippines concerning information alleging that Mr. Rafael Olite, aged 35, a resident of Reclamation Ares, Pasay City, had been arrested at Pasay City on 15 April 1989 by Intelligence personnel and taken to the prison of that town, where he was still being held. According to a medical report issued by a group called the Medical Action Group-Philipinnes Action Concerning Torture, Mr. Olite had been tortured while in detention. 124. On 17 July 1989 the Government of the Philippines transmitted to the Special Rapporteur a report prepared by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, National__Cap,ita.l Region. According to the report, Rafael Olite was presently detained at the Pasay City jail, and was formally charged with illegal possession of weapons at the time he was apprehended. At the time he was visited by the Commission on Human Rights representatives in the