A/HRC/4/42 page 17 PMSC to provide security services in Iraq, was not able to return to Colombia and received neither salaries nor travel support from the PMSC which had employed them, despite having met the conditions of the contracts.25 Furthermore, the Working Group has also received accounts of isolation, arbitrary detention and degrading treatment when individuals have sought to return. For example, a Peruvian security guard serving with PMSCs in Iraq complained of having been held in custody and isolation in degrading conditions for six days, upon notifying his supervisors of his intention to return to Peru.26 50. Another element of concern is the access to medical services and treatment of injured PMSC contractors, directly affecting their right to life and right to health. The Working Group received information of complaints of injured persons required by PMSC supervisors to carry out their work without any medical assistance. One individual unable to walk was requested to fulfil his duties on crutches and wearing a bullet-proof vest, while carrying a machine gun. When one individual allegedly sought to invoke the clauses of the contract concerning medical assistance, his supervisors replied that his contract had been signed in Honduras and “that it had no validity for them”.27 Similar situations are reported by Colombian workers, as declared by a former lieutenant of the army who was working for a PMSC in Iraq, indicating the limited or absent capacity to provide medical assistance to injured PMSC personnel, who are returned to their country of origin if unable to work effectively.28 The Working Group is also concerned of reports of work under permanent stress up to 16 hours daily.29 51. The Working Group notes information received about training received by individuals, prior to being sent for security work abroad, in or near military bases of regular armies. In Honduras, the Working Group received testimonies that a PMSC used a training site in Lepaterique, in facilities most recently used as a scouting training centre, while also accessing training facilities of the army in Olancho (CAME). In Colombia, the contracted individuals have allegedly received training in the Military Cavalry School. With regard to Peru, the Working Group has received information about cooperation between a PMSC and the national army and reports of more than 200 individuals having received training in a state factory of arms and 25 Revista Semana, Bogotá, Edition 1268, 21 to 28 August, pp. 32-39; Diario Mi pais, Ecuador. Friday, 25 August 2003, p. 3. 26 Radio Noticias 1160. Interview by programme “Cara a Cara” for the periodical Zenaida Solís in Lima, on 16 March 2006. Similar information was received by the Working Group during its visit to Honduras from individuals having worked for PMSCs in Iraq. 27 Information received by Working Group of documents and memos signed by a PMSC operating in Iraq (on hold with authors). 28 29 Revista Semana, Bogotá, Edición 1268, 21-28 August, p. 36. Ibid.; Radio Noticias 1160. Interview on programme “Cara a Cara” by journalist Zenaida Solís, Lima, 16 March 2006.