18 throughout the day; she was interrogated by Captain Zárate; the police bound her hands and touched her all over her body; they abused her and beat her; they took her to the beach together with other detainees; she was blindfolded and bound; she was beaten, undressed, and raped through the vagina and rectum, and plunged in the sea; she thought that she fainted; the policemen continued to beat her on the way to DINCOTE; every day she was abused and fondled; she saw her sister after fifteen days, but was unable to speak to her; Captain Zárate was present when she was interrogated on February 15; a statement was taken from her, in which she denied that she belonged to any subversive group; Captain Zárate was also in charge of the squad that arrested her and took her to the beach; she remained at the police station from February 6 to 26, and was always kept handcuffed and blindfolded; there were several persons there, and they slept on the floor; on March 3, 1993, she was taken to the establishment where she was currently held; she had initially been detained at DINCOTE; she thought she had also been at the Military Veterinary Hospital; the atmosphere there was like a prison, and they slept on the floor; the military interrogation had taken place there; she refused to cooperate in the initial interrogation on the ground that her attorney was not present; on the second day the military prosecutors continued to question her; she was assigned a court-appointed attorney, and the Judge and the Naval Military Prosecutor were also present; she was harassed and tortured, and threatened with the death of her sister and daughter to force her to make a pretrial statement to ensure her family's safety; she was transferred to the prison; the interrogation lasted about three days; she was acquitted by the court of first instance; she never enjoyed the right to legal counsel or to have her attorney present; when she was tried in the civil courts she was in detention at Chorrillos Women's Maximum Security Prison; there the inmates lived in blocks, there was no isolation cell, and all the cells were the same; after she had been taken to the beach she was examined by a doctor and told him that her arms were bruised; the only person present for her pretrial statement at DINCOTE was Captain Zárate, but the prosecutor was not present; when she made her pretrial statement before the Special Naval Court the persons there were wearing hoods, and neither Captain Zárate nor her attorney attended; the attorneys who represented her were Dr. Carolina Loayza-Tamayo and Dr. Nicolás de Piérola. f. Testimony of Víctor Alvarez-Pérez Víctor Alvarez-Pérez, defense attorney for witness Mr. Cantoral-Benavides, testified that he felt fear in his professional task as the attorney for a co-defendant in the case against María Elena Loayza-Tamayo; one reason was that the crime of collaboration in terrorism was governed by law and he could be charged with that crime or the crime of activities against the public administration; a number of lawyers had been prosecuted on charges of terrorism; another reason for his fear was that he had been investigated along with other lawyers, having appeared on a secret list of persons allegedly suspected of unlawful practice of the profession, comprising for the most part lawyers who were human rights activists, including Carolina Loayza. He testified that he had received several threats. The police arbitrarily and unlawfully decided in which courts a detainee should be tried, without the legal authority to do so; counter-insurgency legislation extended the military jurisdiction to civil proceedings. He declared that the military proceeding was irregular and the military judges faceless, wearing hoods and military uniforms; they had no legal training, and could not be recused. The military hearing took place in a barracks on the Las Palmas military base, and was only one phase of the judicial investigation, which was followed by an appeal to the Special Naval Court Martial, which reviewed the judgment of the court, thence to the Special Military Supreme Council also for review of the judgment; any representations had to be made within