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more taxes, which he would then deduct from his income tax. When she was in the
prison, she was the only person imprisoned for that crime; no one had ever been
imprisoned for it. She suffered a series of physical ailments owing to the conditions
to which she was submitted and the pressures exercised on her in prison. When she
was in prison, police arrived with balaclava helmets and flashlights at about 2 a.m.
or 3 a.m., they shone the flashlights on her face and did not let her sleep, they also
did this when she was in the clinic.
g)
Testimony of Emilio Rodríguez Larraín Salinas, lawyer for
Baruch Ivcher Bronstein���s wife and daughter, and Director of the
Company when Mr. Ivcher was Chairman of the Board
Lawyer and advisor to various companies; he was the lawyer for Mr. Ivcher’s wife
and daughter, Michal, and he assisted them during several proceedings. He was a
Director of the Company from 1996 until September 19, 1997, when the
administration was handed over to the minority shareholders.
During the time he was a Director, the Winter brothers never expressed any
disagreement with the Channel’s editorial line, and at meetings, they appeared to
have a good relationship with Mr. Ivcher and his family. It was a surprise when they
came to an agreement with the Commander General of the Army, on May 23, 1997,
and stated that they had no input into the editorial line of Channel 2. Since then,
the Winter brothers adopted a hostile attitude towards Mr. Ivcher and the company
directors.
On July 11, 1997, the Winter brothers filed the first action for amparo and, two days
later, the resolution that deprived Mr. Ivcher Bronstein of his nationality was
published in the official gazette, El Peruano. There were elements in the text of the
former that coincided with the contents of the resolution. The complaint was filed
against Mr. Ivcher, but the precautionary measure requested also included Mrs.
Ivcher’s property, owing to the existing joint ownership through marriage. Although
she had not even been summoned to the proceeding, she appeared before the Public
Law Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima on August 27, 1997, to request the
annulment of the proceeding. The president of the Chamber attempted to bar her
report, affirming that Mrs. Ivcher was not a party to the proceeding, but as the
media were present at the hearing, the witness told the president that she would
make a complaint against him for restricting her right to defense; consequently,
after consulting other members of the Chamber, he authorized her to submit her
report.
The action for amparo filed by the Winter brothers was admitted immediately, but
the proceedings to recognize Mrs. Ivcher’s right were delayed by for between eight
months and two and a half - almost three - years.
On September 12, the request for annulment was declared without merit, and it was
indicated that at no time had Mrs. Ivcher’s rights been affected and the only
intention of the action for amparo and the precautionary measure was to safeguard
the Winter brothers’ rights. Consequently, on September 26, he filed a petition for a
“recovery injunction” (interdicto [de] recobrar), because his clients were being
divested of the ownership of their shares. Also, on December 1, 1997, he organized