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(iv) Rene Benitez Medrano, suspended horizontally by his feet and
hands in the Prison of the No. 4 Military Detachment
(30 February 1988);
(v) Dora Alicia Villaneuva Moreno* pressure applied to her breasts
and her genital organ despite being three months' pregnant,
ribs and stomach pricked with pins. This torture was carried
out by armed men in plain clothes belonging to the Rural Police
(16 January 1989)}
(1) The following persons are alleged to have been subjected to torture
and ill-treatment and are still in prison (date given 15 February 1989):
Daniel Huezo Huezo, in the Central Gaol of Santa Ana; Edwin Jamir Andrade, in
the Central Prison of San Vicente; Maria Elena Rios Flores, in the Women's
Rehabilitation Centre in Ilopango, Department of Sail Salvador; Rene Orlando
Sagastume Guerrero, in the Central Prison of Santa Ana; Margarita Eugenia
Navarro Argenal in the Rehabilitation Centre at Ilopango, Department of
San Salvador.
57. On 5 October 1989 the Government of El Salvador reported to the
Special Rapporteur on the following persons: Edwin Jamir Andrade,
Rosabel Sibrian Nunez, Jose Gilberto Garccia, Mario Geovanny Iraheta Cortez,
Margarita Augenia Navarro Argenal, David Aguilar Maldonado, Pablo Martinez o
Pablo Antonio Martinez Flores, Jackeline Astrid Penate Hernandez,
Rene Benitez Medrano, Dora Alicia Villaneuva Moreno, Daniel Huezo Huezo,
Maria Elena Rios Flores, and Rene Orlando Segastume Guerrero. The Government
stated that the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (governmental) had no
record of these persons in the arrests made by the various security bodies and
in other military garrisons.
58. On 18 April 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the
Government of El Salvador concering the detention of Dr. Leonardo Antonio
Gonzalez Galdamez who, according to information received, had been arrested
on 15 January 1989, by the Rural Police in the city of Santa Ana.
Dr. Gonzalez Galdamez has been sentenced by the First Criminal Judge of
Santa Ana to imprisonment for "terrorist activities" and was allegedly beaten
and tortured by the Rural Police.
59. On 27 April 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the
Government of El Salvador about the following persons, belonging to the
organizations listed below: Blanca Margarita Aleman (ADEMUSA), Gloria Alicia
Galan Garcia (FECMAFAM), Marta Ofelia Galan Garcia (CRIPDES), Reina Isabel
Hernandez (Executive Committee of CRIPDES), Maria Mirtala Lopez Mejia
(CRIPDES), Miguel Antonio Jemia Cruz (CRIPDES), Maria Trinidad Olmedo
(CRIPDES)9 Jorge Alberto Ovedo Hernandez (CRIPDES), Inocente Orellana
(CRIPDES), and Mairia Judis Pena Flores (AMEDUSA). These persons are alleged
to have been brought before the judge of the Second Criminal Court of
San Salvador, Centro Judicial Isidro Menendez, and transferred to the Mariona
and Ilopango prisons on 21 April 1989. According to information received,
all had been subjected to torture or ill-treatment consisting of lack of food
and water, lack of sleep, beatings, faces covered by a hood, rape and hanging
from a rope tied around the chest. It has also been reported that
Gloria Daysi Alonso is in the Ilopango prison and has been severely tortured.
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