failure to comply with the obligation established in Article 2 of the Convention39, all as alleged by the Commission. In order to determine the scope of those violations, the Court will first set forth the non-disputed facts related to this chapter and later specify the human rights violations derived therefrom. A) Non-disputed facts. 57. The facts in this Chapter cover: 1) Mr. Iván Eladio Torres Millacura’s personal and family information; 2) the pattern of police abuse in the Province of Chubut; 3) Mr. Torres Millacura’s detentions in September 2003; and 4) the detention and subsequent enforced disappearance of Mr. Torres starting on October 3, 2003. A.1. Personal and family information on Iván Eladio Torres Millacura. 58. According to the facts acknowledged by the State, Mr. Iván Eladio Torres Millacura was born in Castro, Chile, on November 24, 1976. At the time the facts in this case took place, he was living with his mother, María Leontina Millacura Llaipén, his sister, Fabiola Valeria Torres, and his sister’s daughter, Evelyn Paola Caba, in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia, Province of Chubut, Argentina. Mr. Torres Millacura was the bread winner for his mother, sister, and niece. He worked in construction, sometimes together with his brother, Marcos Alejandro Torres Millacura, although at the time of his disappearance, he was unemployed. 59. Mr. Torres Millacura met with his friends on streets and in plazas in Comodoro Rivadavia’s downtown. He was frequently detained, threatened, and beaten by city police. On several occasions, the detentions were carried out based on Law 815, the “Organic Policing Law” of the Province of Chubut, which regulates inquiries into individuals’ criminal records and means of living. At the time of his enforced disappearance, Mr. Torres Millacura was 26 years old. A.2. Practice of police abuse in the Province of Chubut. 60. The State acknowledged that in the Province of Chubut, police abuse occurred to the detriment of poor young people. It was in the context of these abuses that the detentions of Mr. Torres Millacura by the police took place in September 2003, as did his detention and subsequent enforced disappearance starting in October 3, 2003, in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia, located in the aforementioned Province. The Tribunal observes that in her expert witness statement during the public hearing (supra para. 40), Mrs. Sofía Tiscornia referred extensively to the “permanent harassment” perpetrated by the Chubut Provincial police under the protection of misdemeanor laws or for inquires into criminal records or identity. The expert witness stated that “the laws empowering police to repeatedly detain people can many times result in death, torture, or, as in this case, a disappearance,” impacting “the least protected segments of society.” Thus, she indicated that: young people from poor neighborhoods [meet] in central parts of the city[, and it is] there where religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status, birth, or any other social condition. 39 This Article establish that: Where the exercise of any of the rights or freedoms referred to in Article 1 is not already ensured by legislative or other provisions, the States Parties undertake to adopt, in accordance with their constitutional processes and the provisions of this Convention, such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to those rights or freedoms. 20

Select target paragraph3