President Jailed

As an example of a specific problem, the secretary cited the case of a Peruvian student-president being thrown into prison. He was released later on. The Research and Information Commission gave wide publicity at the time to the facts.

About fifty cables were sent by the member countries of the International Student Conference. This combined effort may or may not have had any effect on the Peruvian government's decision to release the person concerned. Nevertheless, the student was released.

Apart from taking action itself, the I.S.C. could always present the facts of any particular case to the United Nations delegates of the member countries. This happened to a case in Norway — reference to the United Nations had its desired effect.