and settled in Tegucigalpa and La Esperanza, where she was less well-known. She moved to El Progreso in 2008 and worked with the Ministry of Reflection of the Catholic Church (Equipo de Reflexión de la Iglesia Católica, hereinafter ERIC). She was photographed and received threats in 2009, in a setting of political violence, when she took part in the resistance process together with the ERIC. 47 50. The military raided the home of Eustaquia García Alvarado and Domingo Deras Henríquez in 1977, looking for their son Herminio Deras García and for a mimeograph machine that allegedly belonged to his older brother, Héctor García. 48 When they could not find the mimeograph machine, the officers seized books and magazines that allegedly attested to the political activism of Herminio Deras Garcia and Héctor Garcia. During the raid, Eustaquia García Alvarado was taken to the back yard of her house, where they beat her around the head with their pistol butts and threatened to kill Herminio Deras García if the mimeograph machine did not turn up. Meanwhile, Irma Deras García, 15 years old, was crying and trembling as she clung to her mother’s legs. Domingo Deras was taken from the house while the soldiers were beating him, and they accused him of having a clandestine radio station in his home. Irma Deras García witnessed these events. That same year, 1977, Irma Deras García and two of her classmates were detained by soldiers, supposedly for distributing the newspaper Vanguardia Revolucionaria. She was then taken to the cells of the Public Security Force, and later, to the cells of the DNI, where she was blindfolded, bound hand and foot, and threatened to “take that newspaper out of your stomach if you don’t give us a copy” and take her out to the killing fields in the sugar-cane plantations. 51. On November 26, 1981—after the raid on the home of Herminio Deras García and Otilia Flores Ortiz (supra para. 42)—military, police and DNI agents entered the residence of Irma Deras García, who was 19 years old at the time, 49 looking for her brother Herminio Deras García. They threw her to the floor, insulted her, shoved her and threatened her. During the raid, the agents apprehended her other brother, Luis Deras García, 50 and took him to the DNI building in El Progreso, where he was beaten and interrogated concerning the whereabouts of Herminio Deras García. 51 He was then taken handcuffed in the back of the vehicle to San Pedro Sula. When he arrived at the DNI, they took him to a cell and repeatedly placed a rubber bag over his head until he showed signs of asphyxiation, 52 while asking him where his brother was. He was also beaten in the abdomen and ribs and was not allowed to use the bathroom or eat any food. 53 52. After Luis Deras García was taken, his family members Domingo Deras Henríquez, Eustaquia García Alvarado and Irma Deras García went to several different police and DNI stations to find out where he was but were given no information. After that, they went to the 47 Alba Deras García stated: “At the time of the coup d’etat en 2009, I was in El Progreso working with a Jesuit radio station, Radio Progreso. I was very frightened and wondered whether it was a mistake to have returned to Honduras. I started going to the protests. Then they shut down Radio Progreso, where I worked, and that was when I began to receive threats.” Statement by Alba Luz Deras García, supra (evidence file, folio 2365). 48 Héctor García was a member of the Workers’ Union of the Tela Railroad Company, where Herminio Deras García served as an advisor. 49 Irma Deras stated, “I was asleep, it was midnight, I heard someone forcing the window and footsteps on the tin roof […] they started to upend the bedrooms, the beds, even the crib where my children were sleeping; they were newborns, about eight months old.” Statement by Irma Isabel Deras García, supra. 50 Luis Deras García, who was 23 years old, is the younger brother of Herminio Deras García. 51 Luis Deras García emphasized that he was “savagely tortured” in the DNI cells. 52 According to Luis Deras García and the representatives, this was “a practice of torture known as ‘the hood.’” 53 Luis Deras García said, in this regard, that he was held prisoner there for three days, and they kept him “isolated, after they tortured me they never gave me anything to eat or drink, and I had to urinate and defecate right there.”