74. Pursuant to a supplemental police report, the persons who were arrested “were placed under the custody of the Office of the Police Chief of Pichincha, under Report No. 134-JEIP-CP1-94 of August 8, 1994.”47 C. Medical Examinations Reports of August 9, 1994 75. On August 9, 1994, after a request was filed by an attorney,48 a legal medical expert and a medical expert of the National Office of Forensic Medicine performed forensic medical examinations and drafted the corresponding reports on the alleged victims at Men’s Rehabilitation Center No. 3 of Quito,49 which were submitted to the Eighth Judge for Criminal Matters of Pichincha. 50 76. With regard to Mr. Emmanuel Cano, the experts reported that […]he recounts that around eight days earlier, he suffered multiple abuses and traumas by the INTERPOL investigators who came in and beat him, right in front of the Prosecuting Attorney, who pretended not to see it, that he was threatened with death if he confessed that the statements that he was forced to sign were as a result of abuses and psychological torture. That they kept him on his knees for several hours with his arms held high […].[…]He recounts that four days earlier he had suffered otorrhagia of his right outer ear as a result of being hit with a flat hand on his outer ear, creating a vacuum, but we found no visible traces (he claims that he took a bath); in the right posterior hemithorax, there is an area of violaceous ecchymosis two centimeters in diameter; on the right side region of the thorax, there are four areas of violaceous ecchymosis, two of them are rounded and two and three centimeters diameter, respectively, and the other two are elongated, horizontally, four by one and a half and three by one centimeter at their widest dimensions, respectively, on the left side of the thorax, there is an area of violaceous ecchymosis of four by three centimeters at its widest dimensions; on the right flank of the abdomen a violaceous ecchymosis is visible of two centimeters in diameter that is painful to the touch. The injuries described are a result of the traumatic action of a hard blunt body and of abuse received which prompted three days of illness and physical incapacity to be counted from the day it was caused in addition to psychological trauma, which has appeared and lasted up until the present time.) Photographs were attached hereto.51 77. With regard to Mr. Alfonso Jaramillo González, the experts reported that: […] He recounted that eight days earlier at the offices of INTERPOL, he suffers multiple traumas, that his eyes had to be bandaged, was subjected to psychological torture by death threats frequently by the investigators; […] in the left malar region there is a rounded one centimeter diameter scarred excoriation, rounded, the scab of which is breaking off; in the right […] region there is an area of yellowish eechymosis seven by four centimeters at its widest dimensions; another area of yellowish elongated eechymosis seventeen by three centimeters at its widest dimension is visible from the height of the first dorsal vertebra downward toward the right of the thorax; in the left scapular region we see another slightly 47Annex 23. Report of the Police 134-JEIP-94, Case P1-201-JPEIP-94, August 8, 1994. communication of the State of May 28, de 2004. Page 521 y ss. Annex to the 48Annex 24. Communication from the Attorney of the Courts of the Republic to the Judge for Criminal Matters of Pichincha, August 5, 1994. Annex to petitioner’s communication of October 26, 1994. 49Annex 25. Tenth Judge for Criminal Matters of Pichincha, Request for a Medical Examination, August 5, 1994. Annex to petitioner’s communication of October 26, 1994. 50Annex 26. Medical Examination Reports of Messrs. Emmanuel Cano, Luis Alfonso Jaramillo, Eusebio Domingo Revelles and Jorge Eliécer Herrera of August 9, 1994. Annex to petitioner’s communication of October 26, 1994. 51Annex 26. Medical Examination Reports of Messrs. Emmanuel Cano, Luis Alfonso Jaramillo, Eusebio Domingo Revelles and Jorge Eliécer Herrera of August 9, 1994. Annex to petitioner’s communication of October 26, 1994. 18