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b) “It ensure the protection of the life and integrity of Iván Eladio Torres”; and
c) Other specific measures.
6.
The brief of June 27, 2006, in which the Inter-American Commission
presented information on the situation of Luis Alberto Alcaína, in response to the
request in the Order of the President (supra Having seen paragraph 4). In this
regard they indicated that:
a) On April 25, 2006, Verónica Heredia, representative of those requesting the
provisional measures, met with Mr. Alcaína in the Comodoro Rivadavia
Municipal Jail. Mr. Alcaína told her that the police agents had invented that he
had tried to escape on April 23, 2006 (supra Having seen paragraph 2(f)) and
indicated that what happened that day was that the police agents curtailed
his conjugal visit, so he complained and resisted; consequently, they began to
hit him and dragged him to the Third Departmental Police Station, next door
to the Municipal Jail. While he was in the cell, he saw several police agents
bring in Valeria Torres forcibly and shut her up in one of the cells, handcuffed;
he heard her cries and the police mistreatment. He also stated that “he told
all this to the judge in Sarmiento”;
b) The report of the head of the Comodoro Rivadavia Municipal Jail of May 29,
2006, addressed to the No. 1 Court of First Instance, that Luis Alberto Alcaína
had escaped from the Municipal Jail;
c) On May 30, 2006, the No. 1 Court of First Instance declared Luis Alberto
Alcaína in contempt of court and ordered his immediate detention;
d) The Inter-American Commission has no information about the whereabouts of
Mr. Alcaína or the State’s efforts to locate him; and
e) It requested the Court to require the State to provide detailed information on
the circumstances of “Mr. Alcaína’s alleged escape,” the State’s efforts to
locate him, and also on the investigations opened as a result of the facts that
Mr. Alcaína reported to the judge in Sarmiento and the results.
7.
The brief of June 27, 2006, in which the State, through the Comodoro
Rivadavia Ombudsman’s Office, presented “the statement prepared in conjunction
with Miguel Ángel Sánchez, detained at the Moscón Departmental Police Station,
because he is protected by the measures ordered by the Court” and “so that [his]
prison situation[...] and his wishes are known.” On June 30, 2006, the Secretariat of
the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) sent a note to the State, indicating that the
document received was illegible and requesting that it should be retransmitted as
soon as possible.
8.
The brief of June 29, 2006, with which María Leontina Millacura Llaipén
presented two unsigned letters in relation to what allegedly happened to her son,
Iván Torres.
9.
The brief of June 30, 2006, in which the Commission submitted its
observations on the brief of June 26, 2006, presented by the representatives of the
beneficiaries of the measures (supra Having seen paragraph 5). The Commission