Valenzuela Valencia (age 15 at the time of the incidents); Álvaro Taboada Valencia; Claudia Valencia Alarcón; Carlos Eladio Cruz Añez; Patricia Catalina Gallardo Ardúz; María Fernanda Peña Gallardo (deceased); Freddy Cáceres Castro; Oswaldo Lulleman Antezana; Raúl Oswaldo Lulleman Gutiérrez; Victoria Gutiérrez de Lulleman; Paola Lulleman de Zaconeta; Luis F. Lulleman Gutiérrez; Julia Mamani Mamani; Genaro Ahuacho Luna (Walter Herrera Flores - deceased); Carlos Enrique Castro Ramírez; Alfredo Bazán La Rosas (José Miguel Abildo Díaz); Víctor Manuel Boggiano Bruzon (Juan Ramírez Ortega); Elacio Peña Córdoba; Francis Elida Pimentela Merino; Edwin Rodríguez Alarcón; Gabriel Valencia Alarcón; Alexis Valencia Alarcón (age 12 at the time of the incidents); Claudio Valencia (age 3 at the time). 14. The petitioner stated that following the illegal nighttime raids on their homes, the alleged victims were arrested on December 18, 2001, as part of an investigation being carried out by the Judicial Technical Police in connection with a robbery four days earlier of PROSEGUR, a n armored truck, which resulted in the deaths of three persons and the loss of the money. 15. The petitioner specified that at 3 a.m. on December 18, 2001, more than 80 heavily armed police agents raided the home of Mr. Blas Valencia Campos, where he lived with his wife, his four children, and his grandson. According to the petitioner’s account, within the span of about four hours, the police agents: · · · · · · Broke down doors and searched every room with no respect for the fact that some of the persons found there were children, even pointing a gun at a 3year-old child. Cruelly beat all those who were present, who were handcuffed, their faces covered, and placed face-down on the floor. Struck the already subjugated and handcuffed individuals in the head with their guns until they lost consciousness, kicked them in the face, and delivered blows to their genital organs until they vomited blood, threatening that if they didn’t talk they were “going to kill” them. While some policemen administered the beatings, others set about robbing their belongings, taking $150,000 in U.S. currency and 38,000 bolivianos, which allegedly belonged to the Valencia Alarcón family. They also stole jewelry, clothing, electrical appliances, and computers. The women’s vaginas were penetrated with fingers and guns, and the women were forced to strip naked. Alexis Valencia Alarcón, a minor, was held for several hours, beaten, and forced to denounce and incriminate his parents, Blas Valencia Campos and Norma Alarcón de Valencia. He was also driven through various parts of the city and forced to report the houses in which the others implicated in the robbery could be found. 16. The petitioner stated that on that same night of December 18, 2001, in the residence of the Peruvian citizens Víctor Manuel Boggiano Bruzon (Juan Ramírez Ortega), Genaro Ahuacho Luna (Walter Herrera Flores), Alfredo Bazán y Rosas (José Miguel Abildo Díaz), Mercedes Valencia Chuquimia, and the 15-year-old minor Mauricio Valenzuela Valencia, the police “opened fire” with heavy-caliber weapons and captured the aforesaid persons, who were placed face-down and beaten cruelly and inhumanely. The petitioner indicated that as a result of the foregoing, three months later Mr. Genaro Ahuacho Luna (Walter Herrera Flores) was taken from the Chonchocoro prison for emergency attention at a medical center in the city of El Alto, where he died from blows received to the head. 17. The petitioner continued that in the family home of two of those arrested, Oswaldo and Raúl Lulleman, the latter’s toenails were pulled out, which meant that he would be unable to attend any of the hearings in person to defend 3