9 in this case. The Court has examined that evidence and the parties’ arguments, and declares the following facts proven: a) Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides was born on March 21, 1972. At the time of his detention he was 20 years old and a biology student at Peru’s Universidad Nacional de San Marcos. He did informal teaching from time to time to earn money;14 b) Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides was detained on February 6, 1993, and released on June 25, 1997, which means that he was incarcerated for four years, four months and nineteen days. He was pardoned on June 24, 1997, by executive order N. 078-97-JUS. Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides left Peru because of fear and a sense of insecurity, and is afraid to return there. He has lived in Brazil since June 1998;15 c) The victim’s mother is Gladys Benavides López, and his brothers are José Antonio, Luis Fernando and Isaac Alonso, all by the surname Cantoral Benavides. His father, Isaac Cantoral Huamaní, died on December 29, 1975;16 d) During his incarceration and as a result of the torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishing he endured, Luis Alberto Cantoral suffered from psychiatric and physical disorders. The family paid the expenses necessitated to treat these disorders;17 14 Cf. birth certificate of Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides N. 809, April 19, 1972, Birth Records Office, Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Jesús María District Council in the Department of Lima, Republic of Peru; Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides’ testimony to the Court, September 6, 2001, at the public hearing on reparations in the present case, and Luis Alberto Cantoral’s testimony to the Court, September 20, 1999, during the public hearing on the merits of the present case. 15 Cf. facts proven in the judgment on the merits in the present case, delivered by the Court on August 18, 2000, paragraph 63 a) and s); Executive Order N. 078-97-JUS, June 24, 1997, published in the official gazette, Diario El Peruano, June 25, 1997; Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides’ testimony to the Court, September 6, 2001, during the public hearing on reparations in the present case, and the expert report prepared by Ana Luiza Laureiro de Vasconcellos submitted to the Court on September 6, 2001, during the public hearing on reparations in the present case. 16 Cf. birth certificate of Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides N. 809, April 19, 1972, Birth Records Office, Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Jesús María District Council in the Department of Lima, Republic of Peru; birth certificate of José Antonio Cantoral Benavides N. 796, April 22, 1971, Birth Records Office, Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Jesús María District Council, Department of Lima, Republic of Peru; birth certificate of Luis Fernando Cantoral Benavides N. 808, April 19, 1972, Birth Records Office, Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Jesús María District Council in the Department of Lima, Republic of Peru; birth certificate of Isaac Alonso Cantoral Benavides N. 2205, November 6, 1975, Birth Records Office, Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Jesús María District Council in the Department of Lima, Republic of Peru; and a December 31, 1975 memorandum from the Police Commissioner to the Chief of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Jesús María District Council on the death of Isaac Cantoral Huamaní on December 29, 1975. 17 Cf. Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides’ testimony to the Court on September 6, 2001, at the public hearing on reparations in the present case; Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides’ testimony to the Court on September 20, 1999, at the public hearing on the merits of the present case; Gladys Benavides López’ testimony to the Court on September 6, 2001, at the public hearing on reparations in the present case; handwritten notes from Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides and Luis Fernando Cantoral Benavides to their mother, in appendices 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the evidence on reparations tendered by the victim’s representatives; memorandum no. 23-98-DN-EPRENCC, March 10, 1998, from the Chief of Health Services at the Miguel Castro Castro Prison to the Director of that penitentiary; June 1, 1994 brief of Víctor Alvarez Pérez, attorney for Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides at that time, addressed to the Chief Prosecutor of Ica; “Proven Facts” in the judgment on the merits in the present case, which the Court

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