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explained that she “was naked in front of everyone, men, women. Then they examined you
rapidly,” and she underscored “the impression of seeing us all there together; some who were
bleeding a lot, with injuries several centimeters long, their faces full of blood, their clothes also.”
Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez recounted that she was obliged to undress in front of four
doctors. Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo narrated that she was told to undress, examined, told that she
had no injuries, and taken to the dining hall. Bárbara Italia Méndez Moreno recalled that she was
taken to a room where she was stripped and then taken to the prison dining hall, where she had
to wait a long time for the medical examiner.
104. Regarding the medical care, María Velasco Rodríguez recounted that she told the forensic
physician what had happened; however, he told her that there was nothing he could do because
she had to report this to the Public Prosecution Service; furthermore, he did not perform a
gynecological examination. Angélica Patricia Torres Linares realized that the forensic physician
who examined her did not note down all her injuries, and she did not receive gynecological care.
María Cristina Sánchez Hernández reported that she was treated by a doctor who sewed up an
injury on her head without using anesthesia and gave her a pill for the pain. Norma Aidé Jiménez
Osorio stated that they could not go to the bathroom for almost eight hours, which caused a
strong stinging sensation; at around 11 p.m. she was taken to the prison clinic where a female
doctor attended her and told her that she required treatment for her arm, but that they had no
bandages and no way of taking x-rays or putting it in plaster. She also reported that she had
vaginal irritation, but there were no gynecologists. She indicated that a doctor told her mockingly:
“I will examine you, if you want, but I’m not a gynecologist.” She added that the forensic
physician told her that he could not put on record that she had been raped, because there was no
gynecologist to certify this. Claudia Hernández Martínez indicated that she was taken to the
infirmary in the early morning hours, where one of the doctors mocked and insulted her, saying:
“I don’t believe they touched you, fucking old radicals! Filth!” She added that the doctor did not
perform a clinical examination and refused to give her gynecological treatment. Afterwards, she
was taken to a forensic physician, but he did not give her treatment of any kind, even though she
complained of a sensation of vaginal burning and itching. Mariana Selvas Gómez indicated that,
when she was taken for a medical examination, she requested gynecological treatment because
she had an itching sensation in her genitalia and irritation owing to the friction that had been
applied, but the doctor told her that only general practitioners were present, and merely
prescribed painkillers. Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez recalled that, following the medical
examination, they told her that she needed an x-ray because of the blows to her head, but they
never took this. Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo recounted that, even though she arrived with
bruising over her whole body, the doctor told her that nothing was wrong with her. Bárbara Italia
Méndez Moreno stated that having to face the “violence of the doctors was truly devastating,”
because when she told them she needed medical care because of the sexual abuse, they refused
to examine her or treat her. She indicated that the doctors put stitches in her head without
cleaning it and without an aesthetic, which “really hurt her,” and mocked her.
105. Several of the women refused to make a statement when they were taken to the offices of
the Public Prosecution Service. Ana María Velasco Rodríguez pointed out that she was not told
why she had been detained and was being kept incommunicado without being able to call her
family or a lawyer. María Cristina Sánchez Hernández explained that, when she went before the
agent of the Public Prosecution Service, she was not assisted by a public defender, she therefore
reserved the right to declare. Similarly, Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio explained that no one
informed her why she was in that place and, when she indicated that she could not make a
statement because her lawyer was no present, they responded that a public defender was present
who would take her case and that she must make a statement, without explaining that she had
the right to remain silent. She told them that she had that right and would not make a statement
until her lawyer was present. Claudia Hernández Martínez indicated that, when they took her to