there from the events of the Palace of Justice. In November 2001, the body of Ms. Castiblanco Torres was identified among the remains that were exhumed from the mass grave of the South Cemetery and, following DNA testing, it was returned to her family (infra para. 318). C.2.k) Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas 134. Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas was 43 years of age in 1985 and was married to Ana María Bidegain, with whom he had four daughters. He worked as an Auxiliary Justice of the Council of State and was pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Paris. 152 On November 6, 1985, Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas was in the Palace of Justice. His wife spoke to him by telephone several times that day and in the evening he told her that “there was smoke but that he was uninjured.” 153 135. On November 7, the family were told that Mr. Urán Rojas had left the Palace of Justice injured but alive (infra paras. 336 and 338). Following this information, the next of kin and friends of Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas looked for him in the Military Hospital, and the Vice Minister of Health at the time “made inquiries in all the city’s clinics and hospitals but could not find him.” 154 Furthermore, according to Ms. Bidegain, she met with a general to show him a video showing the moment when Mr. Urán Rojas left the Palace of Justice (infra para. 338). 136. During the evening of November 8, a friend of Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas identified his body in the “room for the members of the guerrilla” in the Institute of Forensic Medicine. The identification of the body was ratified by Victor Manuel Urán, the nephew of Mr. Urán Rojas, and was therefore returned to his family. 155 The State alleges that Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas died in the Palace of Justice. The different theories about what happened to Mr. Urán Rojas will be analyzed in Chapter IX of this Judgment. C.3) The detention and torture of Yolanda Santodomingo Albericci and Eduardo Matson Ospino 137. Yolanda Santodomingo Albericci 156 and Eduardo Matson Ospino 157 were 22 and 21 years of age in 1985 and were law students at the Universidad del Externado. On November 6, 1985, they both went to the Palace of Justice so that Ms. Santodomingo Albericci could take an examination on criminal practice with a professor who was a justice and so that Mr. Matson Ospino could research an assignment. 158 They both indicated that they entered the 152 Cf. Testimony of Ana María Bidegain before the Prosecution Service on August 16, 2007 (evidence file, folio 14600); Testimony of Ana María Bidegain during the public hearing on the merits in this case, and Testimony of Julia Alba Navarrete of October 15, 2010, before the Sixth Office of the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit (evidence file, folio 14705). 153 Cf. Testimony of Ana María Bidegain of November 14, 1985, before the Second Special Court of Bogota, D.C. (evidence file, folio 30594); Testimony of Víctor Manuel Uribe Urán of March 5, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 9516); Testimony of Ana María Bidegain of February 22, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 14606), and Testimony of Germán Castro Caycedo of April 2, 2012, before the 35th notary of the Bogota Circuit (evidence file, folio 14684). 154 Cf. Testimony of Ana María Bidegain during the public hearing on the merits in this case, and affidavit made by Teresa Morales de Gómez on May 11, 2012 (evidence file, folio 14691). 155 Cf. Testimony provided by Luz Helena Sánchez Gómez before the Prosecution Service on August 16, 2007 (evidence file, folios 14636 and 14637); record of corpse identification (evidence file, folio 20179); Testimony of Ana María Bidegain during the public hearing on the merits in this case, and Testimony of Ana María Bidegain of February 22, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 1295). 156 Ms. Santodomingo Albericci now has a son and a daughter. 157 At the time of the events, Mr. Matson Ospino had a permanent companion with whom he had a son and, actually, he is married to Yusetis Barrios Yepes, with whom he has a daughter and a son. 158 Cf. Birth registrations of Yolanda Santodomingo Albericci and Eduardo Matson Ospino (evidence file, folio 27680 47

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