12 approached Mr. Ernesto Rafael Castillo-Páez in the vicinity of the Central Park of Group 17, Sector Two, Zone Two of the Villa El Salvador district. Mr Castillo-Páez was wearing dark pants and a white shirt, and was carrying a beige jacket; he was identified by several witnesses (Testimony of Cronwell Pierre Castillo-Castillo, Judge Elba Minaya-Calle, Joe Roberto Ruiz-Huapaya, and María Elena Castro-Osorio; statement of María Esther Aguirre-Vera on the videotape enclosed as Attachment XII to the application); d. two policemen wearing green uniforms and red berets got out of the patrol vehicle. One of them arrested Ernesto Rafael Castillo-Páez, who did not resist, and minutes later he was placed in the trunk of the patrol vehicle (Testimony of Joe Roberto Ruiz-Huapaya, Judge Elba Minaya-Calle, and María Elena Castro-Osorio; statement of María Esther Aguirre-Vera on the videotape enclosed as Attachment XII to the application); e. shortly afterwards, another police vehicle arrived at the scene of the arrest and the policemen exchanged words. The second vehicle left, followed by the vehicle carrying Mr. Castillo-Páez to an unknown destination. These events lasted approximately ten minutes (Application, testimony of Joe Roberto Ruiz-Huapaya, Judge Elba Minaya-Calle, and María Elena Castro-Osorio; statement of María Esther Aguirre-Vera on the videotape enclosed as Attachment XII to the application); f. Mr. Castillo-Páez's parents initiated a search and, not finding their son at the different police precincts, instituted the appropriate judicial measures for locating him (Testimony of Cronwell Pierre Castillo-Castillo, Judge Elba Minaya-Calle, and Augusto Zúñiga-Paz); g. on October 25, 1990, Ernest Rafael Castillo-Páez's father, Cronwell Pierre Castillo-Castillo, filed a petition of habeas corpus on his behalf with the TwentyFourth Examining Court of Lima, which declared the action well-founded on October 31, 1990, on the basis of the evidence, and of a series of irregularities discovered in the proceeding, which obstructed the investigation (Decision of October 31, 1990, of the Twenty-Fourth Examining Court, Attachment II to the application; testimony of Judge Elba Minaya-Calle, Cronwell Pierre Castillo-Castillo, and Augusto Zúñiga-Paz). That ruling was appealed by the Public Prosecutor for Terrorism before the Eighth Correctional Court of Lima. On November 27, 1990, that Tribunal ruled the petition out of order, upheld the ruling of first instance, and ordered the remittal of the necessary documents for formulating the appropriate criminal complaint (Judgment of November 27, 1990, of the Eighth Correctional Court of Lima, Attachment III to the application; testimony of Judge Elba Minaya-Calle, Cronwell Pierre CastilloCastillo, and Augusto Zúñiga-Paz); h. on the basis of the habeas corpus ruling, a trial was held in the Fourteenth Criminal Court of the Judicial District of Lima for the crime of abuse of authority against several members of the police force -which comes under the Ministry of the Interior- who were allegedly involved in the disappearance of Mr. Castillo-Páez. By judgment of August 19, 1991, that Criminal Court found that the proceedings showed that Ernesto Castillo-Páez had been stopped by a vehicle of the Peruvian National Police, on the morning of October 21, 1990, since which time his whereabouts have been unknown. However, that judgment declared that there was no evidence to prove the defendants' responsibility; it was therefore ordered that the case be closed without anyone being punished, and without any compensation ordered to be paid to Mr. Castillo-Páez' next-of-kin (Judgment of August 19, 1991, of