17 the beach and tortured; the policemen who arrested him were wearing civilian clothes, as was the prosecutor; the arrest had been led by Captain Zárate, and he could hear that he was one of the persons who took him to the beach; he was held incommunicado, and was presented to the press wearing "prison stripes". He testified that he was brought before the military courts and that his pretrial statement was taken at the Navy Veterinary Hospital; the attorneys did not appear because they had not been notified; the persons there always wore Balaclava helmets, hoods and spectacles, were armed with "FALS", and wore military uniform; one of their number was supposedly a court-appointed attorney in uniform; he was acquitted by the military courts of first, second and third instances, which ordered his release; his attorneys had been Dr. Iván Bazán and Dr. Víctor Alvarez; his release was ordered but never effected; his attorney filed a petition of habeas corpus which was twice rejected; he was then prosecuted in the civil court; he was examined by a police doctor before he was tortured, but was not examined afterwards; he did not have an attorney present when he appeared before the police, in the military court, or in the civil court; his attorney was present at the military court of second instance; Dr. Washington Durand was only present when he gave his statement to the police, but was not allowed to confer with him; in the first military court he was represented by a court-appointed attorney. d. Testimony of Pedro Telmo Vega-Valle Pedro Telmo Vega-Valle, convicted in Peru for the crime of treason, testified that he was detained by members of DINCOTE on January 9, 1993, at his home for his purported links to the terrorist organization "Shining Path"; no representative of the Office of the Attorney General was present; he was then taken blindfolded to DINCOTE, where he was held for 27 days; he was made to sign an act of seizure; he was interrogated and taken to the beach with three other persons; once on the beach, he was undressed on the orders of an officer in charge, and, still blindfolded, was thrown onto the sand, forced to lie on a cloth, abused, wrapped in a cloth, and submerged face-up in the water; he was beaten and lost consciousness; he was taken before the Naval Military Tribunal; his attorney was present when his statement was taken, but when they spoke there was an official nearby; he was represented by the same attorney up to the time he was acquitted by the Special Tribunal of the Supreme Council of Military Justice and released; he was subsequently rearrested on the same charge; he had never met Ms. Loayza-Tamayo, as she was detained after he was; in Cachiche they were beaten with an electrically charged rod and abused; they complained of this treatment to the Red Cross, but when this was discovered, they were terrorized by the police; they were only allowed visits on the third Tuesday of every month; during the first week of August, he learned that his wife had filed a complaint with the Attorney General and the Prosecutor of Ica on the ground that he had been abused, beaten and tortured; the Attorney General told him that this was normal practice, and that it was the initiation meted out to all new inmates at all prisons. e. Testimony of María Elena Loayza-Tamayo María Elena Loayza-Tamayo testified that she was accused by a repentant terrorist and arrested on February 6, 1993, at a property she was having built; she did not live in that building, but usually resided elsewhere with her parents, sisters and children; the policemen, one of whom presented himself as Captain Zárate, came in search of a manila envelope and informed her that she was being arrested on the accusation of a repentant terrorist; she was put in a car blindfolded and presented with an act of seizure which she refused to sign; a prosecutor was present and she was taken to DINCOTE, where she was bound, blindfolded, beaten and abused