16 to corroborate the statement he had made to the police; he was blindfolded and beaten. With regard to the prison regime, he testified that they are locked up for twenty-three and a half hours; they receive visits once a month for half an hour; the medical service is irregular; they perform small tasks in prison. He knew María Elena Loayza-Tamayo because they had spent 20 days in detention together. b. Testimony of Luis Guzmán-Casas Luis Guzmán-Casas, convicted of treason in Peru, testified that he was charged with terrorism; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the military courts; he was detained on January 6, 1993, without being shown an arrest warrant; no representative of the Attorney General was present, only three policemen, who said that they belonged to DINCOTE but showed no identification; they blindfolded him and took him to DINCOTE, where he was held in a dark cell for approximately 29 days; he was unable to speak to a Prosecutor because none was present; approximately twelve days after he arrived at the police establishment he was seen by a doctor, who merely asked him how he came to have bruises; he was neither allowed to communicate with his family, nor was he informed of his right to an attorney; when they interrogated him he was blindfolded and bound and no lawyer was present; after one or two days he was brought a paper which he refused to sign; when he asked for an attorney, he was beaten and transferred to another cell in which he was kept in isolation, blindfolded and bound; that night he was taken with a man and a woman to the beach, where he was undressed, beaten, tortured, wrapped in a cloth and placed in the sea; that same day they were torturing a woman by the name of María, whom he did not know; he heard the policemen say that she had been raped, but he did not see anything; he was acquitted on August 11 of the same year and released on August 25, 1993; on September 12 or 13 he was again apprehended, and tried in the military courts, where he was convicted; he receives visits once a month; he is allowed to write to his family, but the letters are censored by the warden of the block; he has asked for his sentence to be commuted; he demanded that an attorney be present when he was questioned at DINCOTE; in the military court he refused to be represented by the court-appointed attorney assigned to him, who was dressed in military uniform; he did not take advantage of the Repentance Law. c. Testimony of Luis Alberto Cantoral-Benavides Luis Alberto Cantoral-Benavides, convicted in Peru for the crime of treason, testified that he was arbitrarily detained on February 6, 1993, by members of DINCOTE; the person they were seeking was his brother, who had been denounced by a repentant terrorist by the name of Angélica Torres; at the time of his detention and when he signed the act of seizure he was told that a prosecutor was present, but no one presented himself in that capacity; there he was beaten; he did not sign the paper presented to him by a member of DINCOTE, in which he was accused of treason; after he was detained, they went to Ms. Loayza-Tamayo's home which was pointed out to them by Angélica Torres, who identified Ms. María Elena Loayza-Tamayo at the time of her detention; they apprehended her and took them all to DINCOTE, where they were blindfolded and tied up in a large room; he remained in detention for almost one month until March 4 or 5; he was kept bound and handcuffed; during questioning they were tortured and subjected to physical and psychological abuse; he was taken to the beach where he was undressed, wrapped in a cloth and placed head-first in the water; they threw him onto the sand and twisted his arm, whereupon he fainted; his brother was also taken to the beach and tortured, and told him that Ms. Loayza-Tamayo has also been taken to the beach; during the oral proceeding in the civil courts Ms. Loayza-Tamayo said that she had been taken to