when I asked to see the forensic physician because I was bleeding heavily, he refused to help me.114 92. Meanwhile, Claudia Valencia Alarcón stated: It was on 18 [December] when, at 3:00 a.m., I saw a man approaching my house and, seconds later, more than 100 police officers entered; then, I heard screams and cries from my parents. When I was able to go down to see what was happening, I saw my two younger brothers lying on the ground; then I saw how they put a rifle between my mother’s buttocks; she was bleeding; then, they began to beat me; they put a nylon bag over my head; they brought my son to me and they undressed me; I heard my 11-year old brother crying and, that was the day they kidnapped him; we had no news of him; in the middle of all this, they began to speak to my brother who was trembling, who was afraid, and the police officers were so ignorant that they did not even realize that my brother was foaming at the mouth; my brother suffered from epilepsy and he was having a seizure; they had no compassion […]. They beat us for 3 hours, they groped us; I felt hands touching my body […]. The ill-treatment continued in the PTJ; that day, they made us sleep in dark, cold and humid cells; without a right to anything; we didn’t have a bathroom; the following day, we were taken to the Ministry of the Interior to be presented to the media; we were all taken, even the young children, who were the children of the defendants present in this trial; we were shown to the people; they allowed us to be insulted and even spat on; all out statements were taken under threat and torture; we were obliged to speak; every day they took us out of the cells to touch our bodies; they put their fingers in our mouths and vaginas in front of all the men; they did this four times a day; we were kept in solitary confinement; we were allowed to go to the bathroom only two minutes each day; I saw how [F.E.P.M] was bleeding heavily because she had been pregnant and they made her lose her baby; no one defended us; when we arrived at the different prisons, we were kept in solitary confinement; I was unable to communicate with my father for 3 months; they told me that he was dying; I could not see my son; they took him away from me.115 93. In addition, several of the defense lawyers argued that the raids, the ill-treatment and acts of torture committed during them, and the detentions were unlawful before the court during the oral proceedings116 and in their final oral arguments.117 Similarly, during the interrogation of the Statement by F.E.P.M. during the oral proceedings before El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 17, 2003 (evidence file, folios 65 and 66). 114 Statement by Claudia Valencia Alarcón in the oral proceedings before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 21, 2003 (evidence file, folio 84). 115 Statement by Blas Valencia’s co-sponsoring lawyers in the oral proceedings before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, folio 95); statement by Patricia Gallardo’s lawyer in the oral proceedings before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, folio 96); statement by the Norma Alarcón de Valencia’s co-sponsoring lawyer before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, folio 99); statement by Raul and Oswaldo Lulleman’s lawyer before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, folios 99 and 100); statement by F.E.P.M.’s lawyer before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, folio 101); statement by Elacio Peña Córdova’s lawyer before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, folio 104); statement by Carlos Enrique Castro’s lawyer before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court, January 29, 2003 (evidence file, ‘folio 104). 116 117 Patricia Gallardo Ardúz’s lawyer referred to the unlawful nature of the raids (final oral arguments presented before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court on May 13, 2003, evidence file folio 485); Mercedes Valencia Chuquimia’s lawyer stated that his client’s son had been beaten and tortured (final oral arguments presented before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court on May 14, 2003, evidence file, folios 492 and 493); similarly, the lawyer for Oswaldo Lulleman Antezana and Raul Oswaldo Lulleman Gutiérrez stated that the acts of violence had been reported to the Ombudsman and to the Human Rights Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. He also denounced the abuse suffered by being presented to the media as criminals (final oral arguments presented before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court on May 14, 2003, evidence file, folio 494). Also, F.E.P.M.’s lawyer reiterated the ill-treatment that his client had suffered during the raid and subsequent detention (final oral arguments presented before the El Alto Second Sentencing Court on May 14, 2003, evidence file, folios 497 and 498). The lawyer for Elacio Peña Córdova and Carlos Enrique Castro also referred to the unlawful nature of the raid and stated that his clients’ statements had been 28