Peru: “Disappearance” of a lecturer and nine students

AI is concerned about the reported “disappearance”, following detention by members of the army, of a lecturer and nine students at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion Enrique Guzman in Lima. Soldiers reportedly entered the students’ residence early on 18 July 1992 and detained the following: Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyaque Fierro, Robert Teodoro Espinoza, Marcelino Rosales Cardenas, Juan Marino Figueroa, Felipe Flores Chipana, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Amaro Condor, Heraclides Pablo Meza. Around the same time hooded men took 47-year-old lecturer Hugo Munoz Sanchez from his home. A habeas corpus petition issued on behalf of the “disappeared” was ruled by the judge to be inapplicable. As of mid- September 1992 the whereabouts of the above-named remain unknown.

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