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where he was, she obtained permission to enter Paraguay to see him,
and found him in a deplorable physical condition;
(e)
Rosa Mujica Giménez was detained in 1970 because she was Dr.
Goiburú’s sister. She spent the greater part of her pregnancy in prison
and gave birth in a police station. When she was released, she was
under house arrest for eight months. Years later, she was again
detained for the same reasons; and
(f)
The Goiburú Benítez family lived “on permanent alert” and every night
one of the family had to remain on guard “because there were
constant threats; cars drove past firing guns at the roof of the house;
the electricity and telephone services were cut off; people shouted at
them using megaphones; reflectors were shone on the house, and
they were urged to come out of the house. The persecution and
harassment were insupportable, [so Dr. Goiburú and his two sons]
decided to hide in the jungle in Misiones [... for] two months.” In
addition, an attempt was made to abduct Dr. Goiburú’s youngest child
from the family home in Posadas.
100. The Court considers that the situations endured by the next of kin during the
detention and disappearance of Messrs. Goiburú Giménez, Mancuello Bareiro and
Ramírez Villalba have been proved:
(a)
When Agustín Goiburú Giménez, Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro and the
brothers Benjamín and Rodolfo Ramírez Villalba were disappeared, it
was Elva Elisa Benítez Feliu de Goiburú, Ana Arminda Bareiro de
Mancuello and Fabriciana Villalba de Ramírez, and also Julio Darío,
Herminio and Mario Ramírez Villalba who began the search for them,
and who were constantly refused information on the whereabouts of
their loved ones;
(b) Gladis Ester Ríos de Mancuello, Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro’s wife, was
detained together with her husband and eight-month-old daughter,
Claudia Anahí Mancuello Ríos. Moreover, she was pregnant at the time
of her detention. She was detained in various places from November
25, 1974, to November 12, 1977. After her detention, “they took
away” her baby daughter and it was only later that she discovered that
the baby had been handed over to her mother-in-law. Months later,
when her mother-in-law brought her daughter to visit her in prison,
the baby did not recognize her. While she was detained in the
Investigations Department she was not allowed to communicate with
her husband, but they were able to exchange glances from time to
time. In May 1975, when she was approximately six-months pregnant,
she was transferred from the Department and never saw him again.
Mrs. Ríos de Mancuello spent most of her second pregnancy in prison
and gave birth to her son, Carlos Marcelo Mancuello Ríos, in a police
station guarded by police officials. He was raised by his mother in the
prison where he was born, in an environment of insecurity and lack of
protection, during the first two and a half years of his life, until she
was expelled from Paraguay, after she went on hunger strike
demanding news of her husband;
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