Benito Bahena Maldonado; and new names: Fredy Nava Rios (16), army recruit and Miguel Castro Munillo, peasant activist: Amnesty International remains gravely concerned for the physical safety of Benito Bahena Maldonado, last seen in a detention centre in Mexico City at the end of June 1997. The organization has now also learnt of the « disappearance » of two other men from the same region, Fredy Nava Rios, detained on 29 May 1997, and Miguel Castro Munillo who was last seen on 4 April 1997 as he passed through a checkpoint of the Attorney General of the Republic. It is feared he has been detained for his involvement in a peasant organization, Coalition of Small Farm holders of the Costa Grande, and a political party, Party of the Democratic Revolution, (PRD).
