18 authority; (f) prison authority, if in custody at a detention facility. In all the above cases, pursuant to Article 13 of the regulations, statements must be given in presence of a representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to Article 11 of the Regulations, the official record of the applicant’s statement had to contain: a) b) c) d) e) f) Commitment to repentance and to the voluntary, definitive abandoning of all terrorist activity. Status and position within the terrorist organization in question. True confession of the criminal acts in which he/she participated. Timely, truthful information on the terrorist groups and their leaders, heads, chiefs, and others, at the discretion of the authority. Information to prevent or neutralize future acts of terrorism or treason against the fatherland. Applicant’s signature and fingerprint of right index finger. 84. Once the applicant’s statement was taken, the Public Prosecution Service must immediately instruct the specialized unit of the National Police to proceed to verify the information provided by the applicant, reporting to the corresponding authority within a period of five days, with a possibility of an extension for another five days in cases in which it was duly justified (see Articles 19, 20, and 21 of the Regulations of to the Repentance Law). The information provided by the applicant must allow (Article 12 of the Regulations): (a) the dismantling of terrorist groups or organizations; (b) the capture of criminal terrorists; (c) the identification of terrorist groups’ training camps and indoctrination centers; (d) the revealing of criminal terrorists’ ties with or infiltration into different sectors of the population; (f) the identification of individuals and organizations that voluntarily support, in different ways, terrorist groups or organizations; (g) the seizure of weapons, explosives, or other materials used by terrorist groups; (h) the release of persons captured and/or abducted by terrorist groups; (i) indication of the method and circumstances of the terrorist actions in which he/she participated; (j) the prevention of terrorist actions and attacks. 85. Regarding the report to be prepared by the specialized unit of the National Police, Article 27 of the Regulations stated that it must either confirm or not the applicant’s claims, “and be duly grounded on technical and scientific elements, allowing the Public Prosecution Service or judicial authorities to rule on the admissibility of the benefit sought.” In cases in which no criminal trial was brought, the Public Prosecution Service must rule on the applicability of the benefit sought on the basis of the specialized police unit’s report, “informing the corresponding criminal judge of the new facts reported by the beneficiary, in accordance with law, and referring a copy of the proceedings regarding the beneficiary to the ranking senior prosecutor, for him to appoint a senior prosecutor who shall necessarily, within a period of three days, order the definitive closure of the case as regards the beneficiary and report the result to the Evaluation Committee (Article 29 of the Regulations). 86. As regards the security measures that the authorities were required to extend to applicants under the Repentance Law, Article 36 of the Regulations provided that: “Applicants, upon presenting themselves, shall be given the necessary personal security and confidentiality and shall be assigned, as applicable, an identification code, with which he/she shall be identified until the benefit is granted,” and that, should there be any “hindrance, delays, or negligence in maintaining the confidentiality that lead to the revelation of the beneficiary’s identity, irrespective of the applicable criminal liability, the person responsible shall be punished by dismissal” (see Article 42 of the Regulations). B. Facts of the case 87. At the time of the events in this case, Mr. Galindo Cárdenas was serving as Provisional Magistrate on the Huánuco Superior Court. Prior to that, Mr. Galindo had a private law practice in the city of Huánuco, which 43 specialized in advising people on international adoptions. Mr. Galindo was married to Irma Díaz de Galindo, age 33, and the couple had a son age 10. 43 Annex 36. Horizontes, Edición Nacional e Internacional, Revista de Panorama Cultural, Reconocimiento a la destacada labor en materia de legislación tutelar en el Peru- Adopciones Internacionales, March 29, 1994. Attachment to the petitioner’s brief of January 3, 1996.