F.2. Death of Ricardo David Videla Fernández 104. “In mid-July 2001,” at 16 years of age, Ricardo David Videla Fernández was interned in the Socio-Educational Orientation Center, charged with three murders (supra para. 73). Upon attaining 18 years of age, on September 17, 2002, he was transferred from this Center “to the infirmary of the Boulogne Sur Mer Prison, where he was kept with adult detainees,” because he had been shot in the stomach during an escape attempt, and was “in the post-operative period.” When he was “relatively recovered, […] he was taken to the […] San Felipe Complex [of the Mendoza Provincial Prison], where young adults aged from 18 to 21 years were kept.” 131 105. A brief dated May 2, 2005, handwritten by Ricardo David Videla Fernández, which he called a “habeas corpus” before the “judge of the First Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office,” reveals that he had reported that, “in the sector [he was] in…] his physical integrity [was] in danger”; that “he was [being] psychologically persecuted by [prison staff], and […] that the threats receive[d were …] ‘severe’”; he therefore asked “to be transferred to the San Rafael prison […].” 132 On May 16, 2005, Ricardo David Videla Fernández “started a hunger strike” that lasted until May 20 that year “so that he would be removed from the maximum security module.” 133 According to his mother, Stella Maris Fernandez, subsequently “he asked her, in tears, not to continue insisting on the claims he had set out in his habeas corpus petition because a prison guard had threatened to [… harm her].” 134 106. Furthermore, on June 3, 2005, Ricardo Videla was prescribed the psychotropic drug Lorazepam. 135 In this regard, on June 21, 2005, a prison official stated that Ricardo David Videla Fernández “was taking psychiatric medication and had a doctor’s prescription.” 136 107. In addition, on June 16, 2005, members of the Prison Policy Monitoring Commission visited the Mendoza Prison where Ricardo Videla was being kept. Regarding this visit, Pablo Ricardo Flores, a member of the Commission, declared that: “First, they visited Pavilion 2, which is a punishment pavilion, and the first irregularity they noted was that juveniles were being kept there, specifically inmate Videla […]. They had no mattresses, no blankets, […] and were confined to the cells for more than 20 hours […]. There are no toilets in the cells, so they did their necessities in nylon bags, and the food was next to the urine and fecal matter. […] The conditions of the bathroom and of the whole pavilion were truly inhuman. […] The water in the pavilion […] was extremely insufficient for hygiene. [… Videla was] very damaged from 131 Ricardo Videla was born on September 17, 1984. Cf. Social report on Ricardo David Videla Fernández of November 30, 2011 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome XIII, folios 7122 to 7124). 132 Cf. Application for habeas corpus filed by Ricardo David Videla Fernández on May 2, 2005 (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome IX, folio 5394) 133 Cf. Social report on Ricardo David Videla Fernández of November 30, 2011 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome XIII, folios 7122 to 7126). 134 Cf. Social report on Ricardo David Videla Fernández of November 30, 2011 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome XIII, folios 7122 to 7126). 135 Cf. Informative note of June 24, 2005, sent by Dr. Fernando Pizarro to the Director of the Mendoza Provincial Prison and presented to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome IX, folio 5238), and testimony of Dr. Favio Roberto Bertolotti Nento before the acting investigating prosecutor, Liliana Curri, in judicial file P-46824/05, of June 21, 2005 ((file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome IX, folios 5246 to 5247). 136 Cf. Testimonial statement of Enrique Fernando Alvea Gutiérrez in judicial file P-46824/05, dated June 21, 2005 (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome IX, folio 5259). 38