33 54(48) During the time of his detention in the Criminal Center of Tela and in the National Penitentiary of Támara, in the city of Puerto Cortés, the alleged victim was submitted to unhealthy and overcrowded prison conditions. Both criminal establishments were overpopulated and they lacked adequate hygiene conditions. Mr. Alfredo López Álvarez had to share a reduced cell with several people, he did not have a bed to rest on and, for some time, he had to sleep on the floor. He did not receive an adequate diet. Additionally, the Criminal Center of Tela lacked drinkable water and on occasions the alleged victim had to wait for it to rain in order to take a shower.72 54(49) At the beginning of the year 2000 the director of the Criminal Center of Tela prohibited the Garifuna population imprisoned in said center, among which Mr. Alfredo López Álvarez was included, from speaking Garifuna, their native language, with the other inmates they knew and with the people that visited them.73 Regarding the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages caused to Mr. Alfredo López Álvarez and his next of kin 54(50) At the time of his arrest, Mr. Alfredo López Álvarez worked independently as an electrician and in construction activities. As a consequence of the facts he stopped receiving any income, which caused pecuniary damages. The alleged victim did not have a fixed monthly salary. He supported his partner Teresa Reyes Reyes and their family.74 54(51) Mr. López Álvarez was imprisoned for six years and four months in the criminal centers of Tela and Támara, time during which he remained detained along with those already convicted, while he was being processed, in overcrowded and unhealthy prison conditions. He was prohibited from speaking in his mother tongue. Likewise, he received physical mistreatments at the time of his arrest, as well as while he remained in the Office of Criminal Investigation, and he was kept away from his family (supra 72 Cf. statement of Mr. Alfredo López-Álvarez offered in the public hearing celebrated before the InterAmerican Court on June 28, 2005; statement of Mrs. Teresa Reyes Reyes offered in the public hearing celebrated before the Inter-American Court on June 28, 2005, and the State’s oral arguments during the public hearing celebrated before the Inter-American Court on June 28, 2005. 73 Cf. communication forwarded by the Legal Advisor of the Project of Human Rights and Prison Population of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), Mrs. Julia Gutiérrez, to the Special Prosecutor of Human Rights, Mrs. Aida Estela Romero, on May 24, 2000 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 35, folios 883 and 884); letter forwarded by the president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), Mr. Andrés Pavón Murillo, and the Coordinator of the Project on Human Rights and Prison Population, Mr. Nelson Reyes M., to the Prosecutor of Human Rights, on behalf of Mrs. Aida Estela Romero, on March 28, 2000 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 35, folio 882); communication forwarded by the president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), Mr. Andrés Pavón Murillo, to the Secretary of Security, Mr. Gautama Fonseca Zúñiga on April 5, 2001 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 36, folios 885 through 888); witness statement before the Local Office of Public Prosecutors of the city of Tela, offered by Mr. Alfredo LópezÁlvarez, undated (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 33, folios 876 and 877); statement of Mr. Alfredo López-Álvarez offered in the public hearing celebrated before the Inter-American Court on June 28, 2005, and statement of Mrs. Teresa Reyes Reyes offered in the public hearing celebrated before the InterAmerican Court on June 28, 2005. 74 Cf. preliminary examination statement offered by Mr. Alfredo López-Álvarez before the Sectional Court of First Instance of Tela on April 29, 1997 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 24, folios 848 through 850); evidentiary document of the Figueroa Transportation Company, signed by its general manager, Mr. Rafael Figueroa, on March 4, 1997 (dossier of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 8, folio 118); statement of Mr. Alfredo López-Álvarez offered in the public hearing celebrated before the Inter-American Court on June 28, 2005, and statement of Mrs. Teresa Reyes Reyes offered in the public hearing celebrated before the Inter-American Court on June 28, 2005.