62. At the time of his arrest (infra, para. 63), Leopoldo García Lucero worked at the Santiago de Chile racecourse. He had worked there for around nine years. 47 A.2.2) Detention, torture and exile of Leopoldo García Lucero (from September 16, 1973, to June 12, 1975) 63. On September 16, 1973, Mr. García Lucero was arrested by Carabineros (military police) in Santiago de Chile, and taken to the building of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). 48 He was then transferred to the Carabineros Post (Police Station No. 1). 49 There he was kept incommunicado and without being charged. He was later transferred to the National Stadium. While Mr. García Lucero was in the Police Station and in the National Stadium he was tortured in different ways. 50 In December 1973 he was transferred to the “Chacabuco” concentration camp, in Antofagasta, where he remained for 13 months. 51 Mr. García Lucero was then transferred to Ritoque, and from there to Tres Álamos, where he was kept for three months. 52 64. Mr. García Lucero was expelled from Chile under powers granted by Decree Law No. 81 of 1973. He was escorted from the “Tres Álamos” Center to the airport on June 12, 47 Statement made by Leopoldo García Lucero on March 20, 2013, during the public hearing before the Court, and testimony provided by the petitioners at the public hearing before the Commission held during its 133rd session, on October 27, 2008 (file of annexes to the Merits Report, annex 4); audio available at http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/audiencias/advanced.aspx?long=es, and Complaint filed by José Antonio Ricardi Romero before the Santiago Court of Appeal on October 7, 2011 (file of annexes to the answering brief, annex 9, fs. 2760 to 2766). 48 Note dated December 23, 1973 (sic), addressed by Mr. García Lucero to the Department of the Program to Recognize Person dismissed for political reasons of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Chile (file before the Commission, tome I, fs. 739 and 740). The Commission indicated that Mr. García Lucero was arrested on September 16, 1973; it also indicated this in both the brief submitting the case and in Admissibility Report No. 58/05 and Merits Report No. 23/11. The representatives also indicated that Mr. García Lucero was arrested on that date in several briefs, including the initial petition lodged before the Commission on May 15, 2002 (file of annexes to the Merits Report, tome I, annex 3, fs. 91 to 120), and in the pleadings and motions brief. The State did not contest this assertion. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the State provided, as evidence, a communication which mentions that Mr. García Lucero was detained from September 1973 to June 1975; however, the note adds that, according to the files of the Documentation and Archives Foundation of the Solidarity Vicariate of the Archbishop of Santiago he was detained on October 7, 1973, in the UNCTAD building, and remained detained in the Chilean National Stadium and the Chacabuco detainee camp (Cf. Letter of November 28, 2011, from María Paz Vergara Low, Executive Secretary of the Documentation and Archives Foundation of the Solidarity Vicariate of the Archbishop of Santiago to the Special Examining Judge of the 34th Criminal Court of Santiago (file of annexes to the answering brief, annex 9, f. 2773). 49 Initial petition before the Commission, supra, and Complaint filed by José Antonio Ricardi Romero, supra. 50 While he was at the Police Station he was tortured in different ways (both physically and mentally): by tying up his hands and feet; blindfolding him, beating his head, and submerging him in water; all of this every two or three hours. He received a violent beating. He was beaten with the butt of a revolver or rifle by one of the carabineros, leaving a scar on his face, and almost blinding him in one eye. In addition, they constantly threatened to kill his daughter in his presence. He was constantly interrogated regarding the whereabouts of political leaders of the Popular Unity party. The torture increased at the National Stadium; they tied his hands to a wooden post and lifted him up with a crane; they applied electric shocks with a “cattle prod,” then they submerged him in water. As a result of the beatings, he lost all his teeth and his left arm was broken. Cf. Initial petition of the petitioners before the Commission, supra, and Complaint filed by José Antonio Ricardi Romero, supra. In his own words, Mr. García Lucero stated: “they knocked out my teeth, [...] they paralyzed my arm, my spinal column; it was a total disaster.” Statement of Leopoldo García Lucero before the Court, supra. 51 According to the representatives, he had an emergency operation for a hernia in the groin, as a result of the torture suffered in the National Stadium, where he was only allowed to see his family twice (initial petition before the Commission, supra, and Complaint filed by José Antonio Ricardi Romero, supra). 52 supra). Cf. Initial petition before the Commission, supra, and Complaint filed by José Antonio Ricardi Romero, 20