E/CN.4/1990/17 page 37 that she had committed terrorist acts. Afterwards, it is reported that she was given barbiturates and DIRCOTE (Anti-terrorism Directorate) agents took her to the Abancay Regional Hospital, where it was established that torture had caused Berious injuries to some vital organs. This case was communicated to the Abancay Criminal Prosecutor and to the Apurimac Higher Prosecutor; (c) Luzmila Miranda Vargas was arrested on 16 September 1987 by policemen in the course of an army operation on the road between Tocache and Tingo Maria, Department of Huanuco. It was claimed that, while she was being question, she was tortured and sexually molested and forced to say she was guilty of the accusation of terrorism. This case was communicated to the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior on 25 April 1987 and to the Attorney-General on 4 May 1987. It was reported that Mrs. Miranda Vargas was still in prison, but no more information has been received about the charges against her. It was also said that her husband Melvin Perez Rios, who had been arrested, tortured and then released, has been receiving serious threats to kill him; (d) Cosine D'Arrigo Sachun, a Callao trade union executive in the education sector and an employee (driver) of the Ministry of Education, published in October 1988 an open letter denouncing irregularities in the administration of the education sector in which he was working and, from that point on, he received telephone threats calling on him to withdraw his statement. According to the complaint, on 23 December 1988, he was kidnapped in Calle Cahuide, La Perla, Callao, Lima, by individuals who identified themselves as members of the Peruvian Criminal Investigation Police and drugged him, until he was dumped on 28 December 1988 on the outskirts of the community of Poros, Department of Huanuco, with clothes he had not been wearing when he was kidnapped and were similar to those used by subversives in the area. On 5 January 1989, he was arrested, wearing the same clothes, by personnel of the Civil Guard station from the Union District in Huanuco, for inquiries into his alleged connections with subversives. He was reportedly tortured while in custody. 118. On 9 May 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the Government of Peru about Juana Lidia Argumedo. It is reported that she was arrested by the police on 28 April 1989 and, since that time, has been held at the 28 July headquarters of the National Police in Ayacucho, without any clear reasons given for her arrest. Concern has been expressed about her physical and mental state, because in September 1984 she was arrested by the infantry in Marina de Tambo, Province of La Mar, and according to her own statement before the courts, was beaten, raped, tortured with an electrical prod, strung up by her wrists and subjected to other tortures. Juana Lidia Argumedo is a sister of the guide who accompanied eight journalists and, with them, was killed in Uchurojay. She is said to have declared in the proceedings connected with this case that the military command in the region was responsible for those killings. 119. On 18 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent message to the Government of Peru about Eduardo Espinosa Cotrina, a 17-year-old workman; Bartolome Damian Mauricio, a 28-year-old workman; Florentino Chavez Cornelio, a 30-year-old workman; Jorge Luis Balloso Velasquez, a 24-year-old workman; Jerry Davila Tarazona, a 21-year-old peasant; Segundo Abraham Lozano Panduro, a 21-year-old peasant; Justiniano Segundo Caballero Izuiz, a 30-year-old