Hernández, Armando Edelmiro Morales Morales, José Luis Morales Ruiz, Aurelio Clodomiro Peñailillo Sepúlveda, Luis Alcides Pereira Hernández, Armando Aroldo Pereira Meriño, Oscar Abdón Retamal Pérez, Luis Enrique Rivera Cofré, José Hernán Riveros Chávez, Roberto del Carmen Romero Muñoz, Oscar Eladio Saldías Daza, Hernán Sarmiento Sabater, Hugo Enrique Soto Campos, Ruperto Oriol Torres Aravena, Edelmiro Antonio Valdez Sepúlveda, Víctor Julio Vivanco Vásquez, Claudio Jesús Escanilla Escobar and their families 37. On June 26, 2008, the IACHR received a petition lodged on behalf of 24 individually identified persons: Luis Evangelista Aguayo Fernández, Manuel Eduardi Bascuñan Aravena, José Ignacio Bustos Fuentes, Enrique Angel Carreño González, Rafael Alonso Díaz Meza, Rolando Antonio Ibarra Ortega (López), Aroldo Vivian Laurie Luengo, Ireneo Alberto Méndez Hernández, Armando Edelmiro Morales Morales, José Luis Morales Ruiz, Aurelio Clodomiro Peñailillo Sepúlveda, Luis Alcides Pereira Hernández, Armando Aroldo Pereira Meriño, Oscar Abdón Retamal Pérez, Luis Enrique Rivera Cofré, José Hernán Riveros Chávez, Roberto del Carmen Rivero Muñoz, Oscar Eladio Saldías Daza, Hernán Sarmiento Sabater, Hugo Enrique Soto Campos, Ruperto Oriol Torres Aravena, Edelmerio Andonio Valdez Sepúlveda, Víctor Julio Vivanco Vásquez, Claudio Jesús Escanilla Escobar, and their respective families. 38. The petition says that in the context of the coup d’état, in Maule, Chile’s Seventh Region, there were nearly 40 cases of disappeared detainees, most of them members of left-wing political parties or people who were not politically active but participated to some degree in the activities of trade unions or student organizations. They say that in the majority of cases they were detained in Parral and disappeared while in that city's public jail or the Carabineros (police) station. They say that several of the detainees were registered as released in the detention centers' log books. Some were turned over to military authorities, while others were seen at prison or military facilities physically in a bad way after their supposed release. 39. With respect to Luis Evangelista Aguayo Fernández, Aurelio Clodomiro Peñailillo Sepúlveda, Oscar Eladio Saldías Daza, and Hugo Enrique Soto Campos, the petition says that they were detained between September 13 and 20, 1973, and taken to Parral jail. On September 26, 1973, absent of any judicial proceedings, on orders from the departmental governor, they were taken from the facility and turned over to Army personnel, since when all trace of them has been lost. 40. As for Manuel Eduardo Bascuñan Aravena, José Ignacio Bustos Fuentes, Rafael Alonso Díaz Meza, Claudio Jesús Escanilla Escobar, Ireneo Alberto Méndez Hernández, Oscar Abdón Retamal Pérez, and Roberto del Carmen Rivero Muñoz, the petitioners say that they were detained between September 13 and October 9, 1973, and taken to Parral jail. Reportedly there is a record of them leaving the detention facility on October 23, 1973, on orders from the department governor, and being taken by a Carabineros patrol to give a statement at a military prosecutor's office, since when all trace of them has been lost. It should be noted that, according to the petitioners, Claudio Jesús Escanilla Escobar was a student and 16 years old at the time of the events. 41. As regards Enrique Angel Carreño González, the petition states that he was detained by Carabineros on September 20, 1973, and taken to the public jail, which he left on October 5 of that year. He was detained again on January 4, 1974, and freed on “parole” on January 9 that year on an order from the Military Prosecutor's Office, since when all trace of him has been lost. 42. The petitioners say that Armando Edelmiro Morales Morales was detained on October 4, 1973, after going voluntarily to the Carabineros station in Parral, where he was taken into custody on the orders of the departmental governor and later taken to the public jail, which he is recorded as leaving on October 11, 1973, in order to be taken to the military prosecutor's office, after which all trace of him was lost. 43. Regarding Luis Enrique Rivera Cofré, the petitioners say that he was detained on October 5, 1973. Víctor Julio Vivanco Vásquez, for his part, was detained on October 8, 1973. In turn, José Hernán Riveros Chávez was detained on October 12, 1973. The petition says that they were all taken to the Carabineros station in Parral, since when all trace of them has been lost. 8