PERUVIAN COMMITTEE APPEALS FOR HELP FOR DANIEL PEREYRA
The Comité Pro-Defensa de los Derechos Humanos [Committee in Defense of Human Rights], which has spearheaded the campaign in behalf of Hugo Blanco, has issued an appeal in behalf of Daniel Pereyra and twelve other codefendants who have been held in prison in Lima without trial for as long as five years.
The thirteen prisoners were menbers of a group called "Tupac Amaru" that set out to collect funds which they intended for the peasant movement forming around Hugo Blanco. They called at a bank in Lima to recuperate some of the money taken from the Peruvian workers and peas-— ants.
They succeeded in obtaining more than 2,600,000 soles [US$100,000]. The papers rated this as the biggest holdup in the history of the country.
Still more sensational was the notice sent to the press by the participants explaining the political nature of the operation. In view of the aims of the young idealists, the action struck a very favorable response in the populace. [See World Outlook September 9, p. 11.]
Unfortunately for those involved, the police stumbled on to them and they were arrested and some of them tortured.
Later, others accused of being involved or politically associated were arrested. About twenty were released on pail. Another ten or so are still “at large." Thirteen are still being held in Lima's notorious jails. The list is as follows:
Held Since April 1962
Daniel Alberto Pereyra Pérez
José Martorell Soto
Adalberto Fonkén Piedra
Victor Ratil Terzi Zegarra
Antonio Aragén Gallegos
Juan Niyiez Marchand
Jorge Tello S&nchez
Held Since January 1963
Eduardo Juan Creus Gonz4lez
Juan Minaya Espinoza
Mario Hoyos Urbano
Iuis Arroyo Bernal
Pedro Candela Santillan
Held Since August 1965
José Marcelino Fonkén Piedra
The Comité Pro-Defensa de los De-
rechos Humanos asks that protests over the
interminable delay in bringing the defen-
dants to trial and appeals for a speedy
hearing be sent to Dr. Garcia Rada, Presi-
cig dela Corte Suprema de Justicia, Lima,
eru.
Reference should be made to the
case of "Daniel Pereyra and others" [No.
aga aen -- V’ Tribunal Correccional,
ima].
Copies of cables and letters and
reports of actions should be sent to
World Outlook and to the Comité Pro-Defensa
de los Derechos Humanos, Avenida Tacna 329,
Oficina 203, Lima, Peru.
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