71 […] from the moment that I was detained […] the police opened fire with rifles […], and they forced me to fall down on the floor; they closed in, stood on my arms, made me spread my arms in the form of a cross on the floor, stood on the palms of my open hands, and stripped me of my belongings. Later on, they took off my shoes and socks, put shackles on my arms and my feet, and forced me to walk barefoot […] up to a small barracks of the village of Nueva Esperanza of the Province of Darien. […] What they did afterward [was] hang me from a pole […] from my right arm, where I remained for nearly eight hours […]. [In the Public Prison of La Palma,] all of the prisoners that were in a migratory situation [made the] decision [… to] stage a peaceful strike, holding hands, facing outside at the time that they took us out, [and] at that point a ton of police arrived and began to drag us by the feet, and as we were caught, they began to beat us with clubs and sticks, […] and in that beating that they gave us, they broke my skull […]. [Concerning the hunger strike at the La Joyita Penitentiary Center] on June 1[, 2003], I sewed closed my mouth [… in response, the police] took me to the maximum security cellblock 12, walking, far from the other blocks […], then a police officer […] said: ‘bring that guy over here; why have you sewn closed your mouth?’ Well, I did not say anything because I had my mouth stitched closed; at that moment they began to spray gas in my face; I felt that I had to force open my lips; I ripped open my lips so that I could breath, and I bled everywhere, and from there they took off my clothes, […] left me naked and put cuffs, […] on my feet; [they laid me [sic] on the floor and] began to walk around in a circle, first hitting them with thick clubs over the soles of the feet, and then walking on the backs of the naked detainees while opening up bottles of teargas and pouring it on their naked bodies and spraying them with water […], it was maddening; it was like fire on the skin. From there, they went around again, made [us] [sic] turn faceup, and came walking on the bellies […] From there […], they took me to a small room that they call ‘la discoteca’ [… and] they continued spraying me with that powder […] from there, they locked me up in a small cellblock […] there they continued spraying me with gas [and] a police officer comes with taunts, laughing, and he tells me: ‘ah, you want to have sex with me?’ And laughing, […], he kicks me with his boots, then, there he inserts a powder in my anus with the eraser-end of a pencil, and he kicks me […].260 234. The Court notes that, after he was deported to Ecuador (supra para. 95), Mr. Vélez Loor filed a complaint before his State alleging that he was subjected to acts of torture and mistreatment at both La Palma Public Prison and La Joyita Penitentiary Center.261 Specifically, he addressed a communication to the Commission on Human Rights of the National Congress of Ecuador on September 15, 2003,262 and the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador on November 10, 2003.263 235. Then, on January 24, 2004, as affirmed by the Stated, a brief was filed at the Embassy of Panama in Ecuador by a person who was said to be the attorney of Mr. 260 Statement rendered by Jesús Tranquilino Vélez Loor in the public hearing held at the InterAmerican Court on August 25, 2010. 261 He referred to having been detained in the Province of Darien by the Panamanian State authorities, that they tied his hands and feet and drove him to the village of Metetí, that in the Public Prison of La Palma he staged a hunger strike as a protest and he was tortured in reprisal, that in the cellblock 6 of the La Joyita Penitentiary Center he staged a hunger strike during which he sewed closed his mouth, that they sent him to the maximum security cellblock number 12, and he was the object of physical and psychological torture. 262 Cf. Brief of Mr. Vélez Loor to the Commission on Human Rights of the National Congress of Ecuador with acknowledgment of receipt of said body of September 15, 2003 (case file of the evidence, volume III, annex 22 of the application, folio 1256). 263 Cf. Brief of Mr. Vélez Loor to the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador with acknowledgment of receipt of said body of November 10, 2003 (case file of the evidence, volume III, annex 19 of the application, folio 1242).