Amnesty International has learned that Luz de Maria Escalante, aged 58, Secretary General of the Sindicato de la Industria Textil, Textile Industry Trade Union, and an employee of the “El León” thread factory in San Salvador, was released two days after her arrest in August 1984. Student leader Guillermo Ramos Orellana was detained on 9 August 1984; Amnesty International has no further details of his legal situation.
