see her husband until December 24, 1974. She relayed what happened then in the following words: They take me to a van where he is, after first telling me that I was going to have an interview with my husband and that they were going to propose my release if he collaborated. They asked me what I thought and I said I wanted to see him. They placed us opposite one another in the van with my husband, me with the blindfold […] on and he in a hood. We were surrounded by people, with my husband and I holding hands, sitting opposite one another, and my husband said to them that they had said he would not be wearing a hood, so that they started shouting that he had to wear one. One of the interrogators said that it was up to us both to decide whether they would let me go, provided that he collaborated and they told him that they were not going to do anything else to me and my child could be born out of captivity. The officer added that they had brought us together so that we could decide because Luis had not wanted to take that decision on his own, because if he collaborated I would not want to see him again. My husband was having trouble breathing. His pants were torn as far as I could see. He was barefoot, with his feet swollen and bruised. I began crying, saying that it was his life and they should do nothing for me, and he told me I should think about it and that they had promised him 24 hours for me to think it over and I said no. Then, in the middle of the conversation he told me that they were asking about Argentina, of ties with it of people in our group, with people from other political organizations. There he insisted that I should take my time and I realized that he would not withstand another torture session. There, when he spoke about the ties with Argentina, the interrogators began shouting “don’t talk, this is about something else.” My husband and I embraced, they separated us at the gate and took me to the barrack hut and I never saw him again.86 76. The wife of Mr. González González stated that she was released in 1978.87 His mother stated that some days after the disappearance of her son, she had gone to the First Army Division where a Major informed her that her son had been taken to a place that they needed to reconnoiter and that there he had escaped through a window and that “they didn’t want to shoot him; so that by now he had probably crossed the pond."88 She said that, on March 6, 1975, she requested information of the First Army Division regarding her son and once again she had been told that he had fled from the detention. center89 She stated the following: When he was ordered to appear, I went to the Female Military Police to inquire and an official there told me that, if he had escaped she would know about it, and that she had made the “wanted” poster for my son a few days before and would try to find out about him. She crossed a large patio and came back in about an hour, looking as if she had been Statement given on August 13, 1985 by Elena Zaffaroni Rocco. In her oral statement before the Court, she indicated that December 25, 1974 was the last day that she saw her husband. She stated that, as can be appreciated, the reasons that the captors permitted her on different occasions to see her husband was that they wanted to “pressure him more.” 86 Statement given August 13, 1985 by Elena Zaffaroni Rocco. On that occasion, she indicated that in “the month of February [1975], she was transferred to the Fifth Artillery.” She expressed that she was then taken to a jail on a date that she did not provide. She manifested that in both places she attempted to obtain information from the military officials on her husband but received no responses because “it was something that could not be known.” She also explained that “after she gave birth […] she was returned to jail.” 87 88 The expression “cross the pond” refers to going from Uruguay to Argentina. Complaint presented by Amalia González de González on July 24, 1985 regarding the disappearance of her son, Luis Eduardo González, to the Tenth Criminal Court (evidence file, annex 1(1) to the Merits Report, fs. 7 to 20). 89 23