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the offices of the Public Prosecution Service to make her statement, she refused until she had a
lawyer; they told her that she had to sign a document saying that she was aware of the charges
for which she had been detained. She refused to sign the document, saying that it was not true
that she knew the charges, and they responded that, if she did not sign, they would not grant her
the right to make a telephone call; so, finally she agreed to sign the document and, despite this,
she was unable to make the call. Mariana Selvas Gómez also indicated that she reserved the right
to make a statement, because the public defender was not advising her correctly. In addition, she
explained that she was not allowed to call her family or her personal lawyer; that the
representatives of the Public Prosecution Service did not identify themselves as such, and she was
never informed of the reasons for her detention. Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez indicated that
she reserved the right to make a statement before the representatives of the Public Prosecution
Service because they did not inform her of the offense she was accused of, and she was not
allowed to report the abuse; also, even though she asked, she was not provided with defense
counsel or allowed to make a telephone call. She added that, from the time of her detention, she
was not given anything to eat or drink and when she tried to report the blows, threats and
attempted rape by the police agents who had detained her, she was told that she would have to
file that complaint once she had been released from the Center. Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas
Jaramillo narrated that she had reserved the right to make a statement before the Public
Prosecution Service because she had not been informed of the reason for her imprisonment.
Lastly, Bárbara Italia Méndez Moreno described how she was not informed of the offense she was
accused of and denied the presence of a lawyer. She stated that she told the authorities that she
wanted to put on record that she had been raped and when they began to take her statement, a
man arrived who appeared to be their superior, and seeing that she was making a complaint, he
“took the paper out of the typewriter and tore it up,” saying “you’re going to reserve the right to
make a statement like all of them.”
B.4 Medical examinations and expert appraisals performed on the women
106. On May 5 and 6, 2006, ten of the eleven women were interviewed by CNDH personnel.
Subsequently, the CNDH issued a medical certificate on the injuries, based on the examination
conducted by its own forensic physicians, which recorded the following:
a. Yolanda Muñoz Diosdada: several bruises that “correspond to direct blows delivered by
hard blunt objects (batons, clubs, shields); based on the coloring […] it can be
established that they were produced approximately 24 to 48 hours previously, which is
compatible with the day of the events”;
b. Ana María Velasco Rodríguez: direct blows delivered by hard blunt objects; based on
the coloring, it could be established that they were produced approximately 24 to 48
hours previously, which was compatible with the day of the events;
c. Angélica Patricia Torres Linares:118 bruising consistent with direct blows delivered by
hard blunt objects. It was also indicated that, based on the coloring, it could be
established that this was produced approximately 24 hours previously, which was
compatible with the day of the events. Regarding the indecent touching that she
recounted, it was indicated that this “usually does not leave traces on the outside;
however, the fact that there were no injuries does not exclude that it occurred.” It was
On May 6, 2006, she was interviewed by CNDH personnel, to whom she initially said that her name was “Marisol
Larios Carvajal.” On May 12, 2006, she was again interviewed by CNDH personnel and, on that occasion, she identified
herself as Angélica Patricia Torres Linares, explaining that she had given another name initially because she was afraid
since, at the time of her detention, she had been recorded and photographed while being threatened that members of her
family would be killed.
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