country’s chiefs of police, among others. In response, the DIT indicated that “having examined the records and logs […] it had verified that [Mr. Barillas Barrientos] has not […] been charged […] or detained […] by members of this Department.” In 1996, the intervention of the Ministry of the Interior was sought, and the latter advised that it was “continuing to conduct the necessary investigations.” 80. In addition, on May 26, 2004, the brother of Oscar Eduardo Barillas Barrientos reported the facts to the PDH, which opened a case file, requested a report from the Prosecutor’s Office, the Minister of the Interior, and the National Police Directorate, and ordered that “the necessary measures be taken to verify the report, as well as the corresponding decision.” 4. José Porfirio Hernández Bonilla79 81. José Porfirio Hernández Bonilla was 35 years of age at the time of his disappearance; he was married and had three children, and he was a farmer. He had been a member of the PGT and possibly of the Guatemalan Army of the Poor (hereinafter “EGP”). The Diario Militar records José Porfirio Hernández Bonilla as follows: 41. JOSÉ PORFIRIO HERNÁNDEZ BONILLA (alias) CHUS and LUCIO. Member of the PGT. PC. 07-01-84: Was captured in Jalapa. 21-01-84: 300. 82. In December 1983, Mr. Hernández Bonilla went to seek safety in a safe house in Japala, where the Diario Militar indicated that he was captured. The family saw him for the last time on approximately December 20 that year. Around that time, several soldiers came to the house of Mr. Hernánez Bonilla’s wife, and questioned her brother about her husband’s whereabouts; they “left him a message that in a few days [Mr. Hernánez Bonilla] would be a dead man” and, under threat of death, they took Mr. Hernández Bonilla’s motorcycle. His wife said that she did not file a complaint or an application for habeas corpus following his disappearance, because if she reported it they would look for him and, as he was in a safe place, “he would not want to be located.” His wife went to live in Guatemala City for protection and years later took her children there. 5. Octavio René Guzmán Castañeda80 79 The evidence regarding this victim is found in: Diario Militar (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I, annex 11, folio 367); affidavit made by Reyna de Jesús Escobar Rodríguez and Marlyn Carolina Hernández Escobar on March 2, 2005 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I, annex 37, folio 593); testimony of Reyna de Jesús Escobar Rodríguez, the authenticity of which was certified by notary on March 28, 2008 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I, annex 38, folio 596); Attestation of the Guillermo Toriello Foundation (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome V, annex A163, folio 10837), and file card of the Identification Bureau of the National Police for José Hernández Bonilla (file of annexes presented by the State on October 17, 2008, tome II, folio 6761). 80 The evidence regarding this victim is found in: Diario Militar (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I, annex 11, folio 367); Copy of the birth certificate of Octavio René Guzmán Castañeda (file of annexes presented by the State on October 17, 2008, tome II, folio 6810); AHPN, List of “disappeared” reported by Amnesty International since General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores took office in August 1983, and Note of the Ministry of the Interior of June 4, 1985, Amnesty International List, GT PN 30-01 S004, Nos. 12466 and 12442 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, D6, folios 11464 11469); Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Bitter and Cruel… An Interim report of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, following a mission to Guatemala in October 1984, 1984, p. 33 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 90, folio 903); AHPN, Log for July 16, 1984, GT PN 51-01 S004, No. 4231 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, annex D8, folio 11478); AHPN, Note to the Sixth First Instance Criminal Judge of December 7, 1985, GT PN 50 S005, No. 13683 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, annex D25, folio 11731); AHPN, Ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of August 9, 1985, and Note No. 19795 of the DIT to the Supreme Court of Justice of August 11, 1985, GT PN 50 S005, Nos. 13401 and 13402 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, annex D26, folios 11749, 11751, 11764 and 11765), and AHPN, Notes Nos. 24881, 24883, 24882, 24884 and - 29 -