E/CN.4/1992/52 page 21 (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' Quiñones Luis Gustavo López José Eduardo Sánchez Castillo Randolfo Campos Benavides Alex Antonio Tovar Flores José Candelario Aguilar Alvarez José Horacio Guzmán Julio César Castro Ramírez 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 Quiñones 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 cooperating in the Colonia 22 refugee project. They were: Estela Cruz Bustamante José Santana López Santiago de Jesús Vázquez 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 cooperating with FMLN.