E/CN.4/1992/52 page 22 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'. According to information received, three other persons who were members of the Emmanuel Bautista de San Salvador Church were detained on 25 January 1990 by armed civilians. They were: Victor Manuel Fuentes Carlos Armando Avalos Inocente Garay Although there is no precise information on their arrest, it was learned that they had been in the hands of the Treasury Police. The first two were released on 29 January 1990 and the third of them is allegedly still being held, on charges of being a guerrilla. (c) Detention and expulsion of foreign helpers of churches Complaints have been received about the following cases: Jennifer Casólo, the representative in El Salvador of the 'Christian Educational Seminars' organization who was detained on 25 November 1989. She was held for 18 days in Ilopango prison, released on 13 December 1989, and deported to the United States. Father Miguel Andueza, a Spanish Dominican priest, who was detained by uniformed persons on 20 November 1989 in Santa Ana. Reverend Brian Rude, of Canadian nationality, who was detained on 11 November 1989 by the security forces and expelled from El Salvador. (d) Death threats and harassment It has been reported that Catholic Archbishop Rivera y Damas received telephone death threats, as did Lutheran Bishop Medardo Ernesto Dénez Soto, who was forced to flee the country following bomb explosions at Lutheran churches on 28 December 1989 and 10 January 1990. Other sources have affirmed that the Jesuit Provincial in El Salvador also received death threats. According to other sources, on 23 November 1989 soldiers distributed a broadsheet in Teotepeque, accusing six members of the town's parish church of being communists and enemies of the people. The broadsheet was signed by a so-called 'Permanent Committee for National Salvation'."

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