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Regarding the detention of Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas and the police investigation
97(70) On July 27, 1991, Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas was arrested at his domicile by
members of the DINCOTE, while he was sick. At that moment, a former fellow
university student, Isabel Cristina Moreno-Tarazona, was also arrested at Urcesino
Ramírez-Rojas’ domicile. The on-duty Prosecutor was not present when the police
entered his house without an arrest warrant.
97(71) That same day, Héctor Aponte-Sinarahua, who was held to be the military
leader of Shining Path and was being investigated by local authorities, was arrested in
an area adjacent to the residence of the alleged victim.
97(72) On July 27, 1991, a search was carried out at the residence of Urcesino
Ramírez-Rojas. The related record mentioned the seizure of manuscripts and literature
referred to an alleged subversive organization, several cassettes containing
conferences on the history, economy and politics of Peru, as well as a computer and a
typewriting machine.
97(73) At the police premises, Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas remained incommunicado for
three days and was not allowed to speak to an attorney or his next of kin.
97(74) On August 2 and 5, 1991, Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas made a police statement in
the presence of his attorney and stated that he was arrested while he was sick resting
in his bedroom, that he first met Héctor Aponte-Sinarahua when the latter was taken
to his residence by the police, and that the documents seized were related to his job
and he denied having carried out terrorist activities or being related in any manner
whatsoever to subversive groups. Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas claimed that those
documents were academic and were part of a database on various political parties of
Peru that he used as working material, in his position as advisor to Congress, during
political debates between the representatives of political parties, who requested
information on the different doctrines and political groups, as well as for the purposes
of a personal investigation in progress entitled “The State and the Economy of Peru”
(“El Estado y la Economía en el Perú”). The alleged victim denied being the owner of a
cassette with songs supporting the organization Shining Path.
97(75) On August 2, 1991, Héctor Aponte-Sinarahua made a statement before police
authorities where he explained that he went to the residence of Urcesino RamírezRojas “to purchase homemade […] bread,” since a taxi driver had told him that he
would find that kind of bread in his house.
97(76) On August 8, 1991, the DINCOTE issued Police Report No. 153, wherein it was
stated that Héctor Aponte-Sinarahua had been arrested at the residence of Urcesino
Ramírez-Rojas, together with Isabel Cristina Moreno-Tarazona, and that the presence
of the arrested individuals at the residence of Ramírez-Rojas “was merely aime[d]at
holding a so-called ‘coordination meeting’ to plan actions in support [of the
organization Shining Path].” Therefore, the aforementioned Police Report accused
Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas, among others, of having committed the crime of terrorism,
“as his relation [to the organization Shining Path] has been fully proven.” In said Police
Report it was stated that “manuscripts and literature of subversive content” were
seized from the residence of Urcesino Ramírez-Rojas, together with cassettes related
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