9 hearing (supra paras. 23, 31 and 37). The above-mentioned witness statements and expert opinions are summarized below. WITNESS STATEMENTS a) Proposed by the representatives 1. Anne Ellen Stewart-Orlandini, wife of the alleged victim Mrs. Stewart-Orlandini got married to Humberto Antonio Palamara-Iribarne and had three children with him. In February 1993, she lived with her husband in the city of Punta Arenas, Chile. Her husband was a retired Navy officer, a “civil servant hired as contractor” and worked “at the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Third Naval Zone, in Punta Arenas.” In 1993, her husband tried to publish the book “Ética y Servicios de Inteligencia” (“Ethics and Intelligence Services”); she financed said publication. All related “invoices were made to the name of [her] company.” Final profits should be received by her family members. The corresponding taxes had to be paid; however, “[the books] were never published.” On the night of March 1, 1993, various Navy officers appeared at her residence, “arrested her husband” and took the books claiming that they “constituted an attack to national security.” “[T]hey accessed her husband’s computer and deleted all files without [producing] any written authorization to that effect.” From that moment on, “they lived a nightmare” since her husband was “often” arrested and kept incommunicated. These events occurred in the presence of their children. One night, they even got into his private office at the company and “deleted the entire hard disk of his computer.” Since she was “the owner of the books,” she filed a complaint against the Chilean Navy with the Court of Appeals of Punta Arenas, requesting that “no limitations be imposed upon her right to sell [her] the books,” considering that she is a private individual. The Court declared it had no jurisdiction to hear the case as the “issue fell within the scope of military jurisdiction;” therefore, she was “left defenseless, […] since, as she was a civilian, she had no access to the military jurisdiction and civil jurisdiction authorities gave up on her.” Three proceedings were initiated against her husband before the Naval Court of Punta Arenas; two on counts of disobedience for refusing to deliver the books and one on a charge of contempt of authority. The witness rendered testimony “several times” during those proceedings before the Clerk, but never before a judge. The proceedings initiated against her husband impaired the life of every member of her family. Everything changed due to the conduct of Navy officers against her husband and her family. Her friends no longer talked to them. A member of the Navy threatened “to arrest her if she made new comments against Almiral Bruna.”

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