36 Detention, torture and forced disappearance of Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro and the effects on his next of kin33 61(30) Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro was a Paraguayan citizen, born on March 19, 1951. He studied electromechanical engineering in La Plata, Argentina, and worked for the company that represented Mercedes Benz in Paraguay. He was married to Gladis Ester Ríos de Mancuello, with whom he had a daughter, born on March 18, 1974, and a son born on August 10, 1975. His parents are Mario Mancuello (who died in 1994) and Ana Arminda Bareiro de Mancuello. His siblings are: Hugo Alberto, Ana Elizabeth, Mario Andrés and Emilio Raúl, all Mancuello Bareiro. 61(31) Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro was detained on November 25, 1974, while going through Paraguayan Customs on his return from Argentina, together with his wife Gladis Ester Ríos de Mancuello and their daughter, Claudia Anahí Mancuello Ríos, who was eight months old at the time. 61(32) Gladis Ester Ríos de Mancullo, who was pregnant, was also detained and imprisoned together with their daughter, Claudia Anahí Mancuello Ríos, who was subsequently handed over to her paternal grandparents. Gladis Ester Ríos de Mancuello remained in prison from November 25, 1974, together with her son, Carlos Marcelo Mancuello Ríos, who was born in prison in 1975,34 until November 12, 1977, when they were released and expelled from the country until the fall of the dictatorship. 61(33) Mr. Mancuello was accused of belonging “to a terrorist group that was preparing an attempt on Stroessner’s life,” allegedly led by Dr. Goiburú. 61(34) Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro was kept in a small cell in the Police Investigations Department, together with Benjamín and Rodolfo Ramírez Villalba, Amilcar Oviedo, María Magdalena Galeano, his wife Gladis Ester Ríos de Mancuello, and his father Mario Mancuello.35 Subsequently, he was transferred to the “Guardia de Seguridad” maximum security prison where he was detained in 1975 and, in mid1975, he returned to the premises of the Investigations Department. From then and until September 1976, his name “appeared on all the Investigations Department’s lists of detainees.” 61(35) Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro was subjected to intense interrogation and torture, especially during the first months of his illegal detention, the latter included blows, lashes with the so-called “teyuruguay,” and also the practice known as 33 Paragraphs 61(31) to 61(41) concerning the “detention, torture and forced disappearance of Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro and the effects on his next of kin” of this judgment are uncontested facts that the Court finds have been established based on the State’s acknowledgement of responsibility. Some of those facts have been complemented by other probative elements, in which case this is noted in the respective footnotes. Also, paragraphs 61(31) and 61(42) concerning the next of kin correspond to facts that are found to have been proved based on the following evidence: official documents (birth, marriage and death certificates), testimonial statements made before notary public by the next of kin and documents provided as helpful evidence. 34 Cf. statement made before notary public (affidavit) by Gladis Esther Ríos on May 17, 2006 (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folios 6340, 6341 and 6343). 35 Cf. statement made before notary public (affidavit) by Julio Darío Ramírez Villalba on May 18, 2006 (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folio 6275).