59 Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service on January 14, 2014, 260 and (x) in an affidavit made on March 26, 2014, and presented to the Court. 261 158. The description of the way in which she was arrested, together with Rafael Salgado, was consistent in all these statements. Gladys Espinoza repeatedly stated that, on April 17, 1993, while she was on a motorcycle with Rafael Salgado that was at a stop light on the way to the Jesús María district, she heard shots and was thrown off the motorcycle, beaten repeatedly by several unknown men, especially on the head with a metal object and, subsequently, taken to the DIVISE together with Rafael Salgado, who was covered in blood at that time. All her statements also mention that, during the transfer, Rafael Salgado was threatened and told that if he did not provide information on the whereabouts of Mr. Furukawa, “all 20 [men would] take advantage of her”; that is, of Ms. Espinoza. 262 Added to this, in all her statements, Ms. Espinoza indicated that she was threatened, indicating in two of them that these were death threats against her; 263 in another statement that they threatened to kill her family, 264 and in four statements that they threatened to “inject her with AIDS.” 265 In four of her statements she also indicated that she shouted out her name when she was being arrested, because at that time, people were being disappeared. 266 In the statement she made before the Court, Ms. Espinoza also indicated that, in the vehicle, she was placed “at the back with my hands tied, my feet tied, they bent my body forward, sitting with my face towards the floor of the car. I was suffocating, but they were not concerned.” 267 159. In addition, with regard to what happened inside the DIVISE and the DINCOTE headquarters in April and May 1993, although there are differences in the way in which the facts were narrated, in all the said statements, Gladys Espinoza indicated that she had been a victim of acts of torture and/or acts of violence and rape. Thus, she stated that: (a) initially they were taken to a DIVISE garage, while she was blindfolded, where “[…] they threw them on the ground, and separated into two groups, one for [Gladys Espinoza] and the other for [Rafael 260 Cf. Protocol for the investigation of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment received on January 14, 2014, by the Supra-provincial Criminal Prosecutor (evidence file, folios 12233 to 12259). 261 Cf. Affidavit made by Gladys Espinoza on March 26, 2014 (merits file, folios 901 to 919). 262 Cf. Police statement by Gladys Espinoza before the DINCOTE on April 28, 1993 (evidence file, folios 8269 to 8278); Preliminary statement of Gladys Espinoza of June 5, 1993 (evidence file, folio 7304); Forensic report No. 003821-V of January 22, 2004, prepared by experts of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Public Prosecution Service (evidence file, folios 1557 and 1558); Extracts from the statement of Gladys Espinoza of October 14, 2002 (evidence file, folios 1474 to 1480); Report on the psychological and psychiatric appraisals made by Carmen Wurst de Landázuri on October 5, 2008 (evidence file, folios 1546 and 1555), and Protocol for the investigation of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of January 7, 2014 (evidence file, folio 12259). 263 Cf. Forensic report No. 003821-V of January 22, 2004, prepared by experts of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Public Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 1559), and Report on the psychological and psychiatric appraisals made by Carmen Wurst de Landázuri on October 5, 2008 (evidence file, folio 1549). 264 Cf. Interview of Gladys Espinoza on February 9 and 10, 2004, Psychological appraisal report No. 0037372004-PSC, Institute of Forensic Medicine (evidence file, folio 1453). 265 Cf. Forensic report No. 003821-V of January 22, 2004, prepared by experts of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Public Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 1558); Interview of Gladys Espinoza on February 9 and 10, 2004, Psychological appraisal report No. 003737-2004-PSC, Institute of Forensic Medicine (evidence file, folio 1453); Protocol for the investigation of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment received on January 14, 2014, by the Supra-provincial Criminal Prosecutor (evidence file, folio 12234), and Affidavit made by Gladys Espinoza on March 26, 2014 (merits file, folio 903). 266 Cf. Forensic report No. 003821-V of January 22, 2004, prepared by experts of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Public Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 1557); Report on the psychological and psychiatric appraisals made by Carmen Wurst de Landázuri on October 5, 2008 (evidence file, folio 1549); Extracts from the statement of Gladys Espinoza of October 14, 2002 (evidence file, folio 1478), and Interview of Gladys Espinoza on February 9 and 10, 2004, Psychological appraisal report No. 003737-2004-PSC, Institute of Forensic Medicine (evidence file, folio 1453). 267 Cf. Affidavit made by Gladys Espinoza on March 26, 2014 (merits file, folio 902).

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