-2precautionary measures, “owing to the threats and harassment experienced”
by the persons in whose favor the measures were requested. In this regard,
they stated that: they were being threatened, harassed and under constant
police surveillance; “Tamara Bolívar was raped after she had made her
statement in the case, allegedly by a police agent, who, after he had raped
her, asked her whether she was the sister of Iván Eladio Torres”; “Marcos
Torres was detained, for no reason, in the street, by [police agents] who
alleged that his mother had implicated them in the disappearance of Iván
Eladio Torres”; and “Valeria Torres was arrested together with Tamara Bolivar
for allegedly stealing food which, they said, they were accused of.” The InterAmerican Commission adopted the measures on January 18, 2005, a day
after one of the witnesses was allegedly murdered. Subsequently, the
Commission expanded the measures to protect other individuals;
c) Following the issue of the precautionary measures, information was received
concerning the murder of two individuals who had testified about the
disappearance of Mr. Torres. Moreover, when requesting the expansion of
measures in January 2005, the representatives reported that Juan Pablo Caba
“had received death threats from police officers,” that Gerardo Colín had been
detained by agents of the First Departmental Police Station, and that Mrs.
Millacura Llaipén and Viviana Hayes had received death threats. During the
proceedings before the Commission, the State reported on the
implementation of protection measures, “such as custody and mobile
telephone services for the beneficiaries of the measures;
d) The measures were requested in favor of the following persons: María
Leontina Millacura Llaipén, Marcos and Valeria Torres, mother and siblings of
Iván Eladio Torres; Juan Pablo Caba, son-in-law of Mrs. Millacura Llaipén, who
is detained in the Municipal Jail [Alcaldía] in Comodoro Rivadavia; Gerardo
Atilio Colín and Patricio Oliva, “witnesses of the [alleged] enforced
disappearance of Mr. Torres”; Walter Mansilla, friend of Iván Eladio Torres,
who was the last person to see him; Tamara Bolívar, who testified in the
case; Miguel Ángel Sánchez, who had been detained with Mr. Torres; Viviana
and Sonia Hayes, next of kin of David Alberto Hayes, witness who has
allegedly been murdered; and Verónica Heredia and Silvia de los Santos, Mrs.
Millacura Llaipén’s lawyers;
e) On April 23, 2006, Mrs. Millacura Llaipén received a telephone call informing
her that a detainee named Luis Alberto Alcaína was being beaten in the
Municipal Jail, and that he had been transferred to the Third Departmental
Police Station. Accordingly, Mrs. Millacura Llaipén visited this Police Station
with her daughter Valeria. At the Police Station, Valeria realized that “they
were mistreating her mother, and interceded to help her.” About “6 or 7
police agents, all men, began to push Valeria around and to hit her on her
legs, her ankles, her stomach, and between her legs, [and] to pull her hair;
they locked her up in a prison cell and handcuffed her with her arms behind
her.” The police agents “made fun of her saying ‘so you are Ivan’s sister; he
screamed like you; more than you; but now he is worse off,’ ‘he will never be
found.’” “At one moment, one of the police agents [...] asked her to turn her
back to him with the evident intention of raping her.” The agents “wanted
Valeria to sign a paper, which presumably they would have sent to the judge,
admitting responsibility for breaking a window and resisting authority; and
when they let her go, they warned her not to make a report, because, if she