106 implements such as comb, lipstick, etc., and to be reintegrated into their role of being a ‘good mother’ (those who accepted submission could see their children again) prove the gender aspects included in the torture inflicted and the specific damage caused to women vis a vis with men;” s) “the regimen applied to the survivors of the massacre constituted an attack against their dignity, and a sustained violation to their right to be free of torture, as acknowledged by Article 4 of the American Convention.” Besides, the suffering caused in the women of the present case falls under the definition of violence against women defined in Article 2 of the Convention of Belém do Pará; t) “covering the period as of July 12, 1995, said violations constituted a violation to the object and purpose of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish, and Eradicate Violence against Women[, …] which was signed b Peru on July 12, 1995[,] and violations [to] Article[s] 4 and 7 of the same Convention for the period that covers from 1996 on, as of when Peru ratified said treat on June 4, 1996.” The State of Peru intentionally inflicted violence against the female political prisoners as punishment for their double transgression of the prevailing system: the use of the gender factor to cause damage and torture prisoners;” “Post-Massacre physical and psychological violence” u) “the State […] inflicted brutal physical violence and serious psychological violence that as a whole constituted torture in the survivors of the massacre.” This violence included frequent beatings, behaviors that intentionally denied the prisoners with children to effectively comply with the roles as mothers, intentional denial of adequate pre and post natal medical attention to pregnant women, as well as of basic condition within the prison that would respect the human dignity of women; v) the solitary confinement measures affected women in a specific manner because they affected their relationship with their small children. Generally, the children that could only see their mothers through bars for small moments at a time started losing emotional control with them and many became unacquainted with them; w) the imprisonment conditions imposed on the survivors violated Articles 4, 5, and 12 of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; “Sexual violence” and “women’s rape as a form of torture” x) violence against women in the case included sexual violence of several kinds. This violence “was not limited to sexual rape, but instead the women were submitted [to] a more ample range of sexual violence that included acts that did not involve penetration or […] physical contact.” At least in one case there is evidence that one survivor of the Castro Castro massacre was sexually raped at the Police Hospital, and there are allegations of sexual violence with the “tips of the bayonets” with regard to the prisoner “extralegally executed, Julia Marlene Peña Olivos;”

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