On 26 August 1993 Colombian citizens Rodrigo Elicio Munoz Arcos, Luis Artemio Munoz Arcos, Segundo Hilarion Morales Bolanos and Jose Vicente Morales Rivera, were detained in the town of Tulcan, Carchi province. They were reportedly detained incommunicado for 13 days at the Office of Crime Investigation (OID) in Tulcan. Reports have been received from the bishops of Tulcan and Ipiales and a representative of the Colombian Office of the People’s Defender alleging that the four were severely tortured and ill-treated in custody. Two doctors who examined the victims on 7 September after they were transferred to the Social Rehabilitation Centre in Tulcan, have also issued reports alleging that the four were ill-treated.
