E/CN.4/1991/56 page 89 communique, which was sent to the local press, was also sent to churches, trade unions, political parties, professional organizations and to accredited diplomatic missions in the country. (b) Arbitrary detentions: A complaint has been made that, on 19 and 20 November 1989, nine members of the St. John the Baptist Episcopalian Church were arrested in church by the National Guard. All the detained were also members of the Association for the Development of Awareness for Man's Spiritual and Economic Revival (CREDHO), a social programme of the Episcopalian Church. The detained were: Juan Antonio "Berti" Quifiones Luis Gustavo Lopez Jose Eduardo Sanchez Castillo Randolfo Campos Benavides Alex Antonio Tovar Flores Jose Candelario Aguilar Alvarez Jose Horacio Guzman Julio Cesar Castro Ramirez Luis Serrano. All the above persons were subsequently released in December 1989 and January 1990. According to them, they were held on the premises of the National Guard and subsequently at Mariona and Santa Ana prisons, on charges of taking part in an armed action by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Father Luis Serrano and Juan Antonio Quinones said they had been beaten and threatened when they were in custody. It is maintained that, on 30 November 1989 the Treasury Police launched an assault against the parish church in Ciudad Credisa in San Salvador and arrested three persons co-operating in the Colonia 22 refugee project. They were: Estela Cruz Bustamante Jose Santana Lopez Santiago de Jesus Vazquez. According to their allegations, they were beaten, threatened, forced to wear hoods and deprived of sleep while they were held at the main barracks of the Treasury Police. They were released on 6 February 1990, 31 January 1990 and in December 1989, respectively. They had been accused, without grounds, of co-operating with FMLN. Furthermore, it has been reported that, on 19 January 1990, armed civilians detained Marina Isabel Palacios, a member of the Christian Committee for Displaced Persons in El Salvador (CRIPDES) in the centre of San Salvador. Weeks later it was learned that she had been detained by members of the "Police Honour Battalion" and subsequently transferred to the Ilopango prison, where she was allegedly held on the charge of being a "terrorist criminal".