- 39 - the offices of the Public Prosecution Service to make her statement, she refused until she had a lawyer; they told her that she had to sign a document saying that she was aware of the charges for which she had been detained. She refused to sign the document, saying that it was not true that she knew the charges, and they responded that, if she did not sign, they would not grant her the right to make a telephone call; so, finally she agreed to sign the document and, despite this, she was unable to make the call. Mariana Selvas Gómez also indicated that she reserved the right to make a statement, because the public defender was not advising her correctly. In addition, she explained that she was not allowed to call her family or her personal lawyer; that the representatives of the Public Prosecution Service did not identify themselves as such, and she was never informed of the reasons for her detention. Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez indicated that she reserved the right to make a statement before the representatives of the Public Prosecution Service because they did not inform her of the offense she was accused of, and she was not allowed to report the abuse; also, even though she asked, she was not provided with defense counsel or allowed to make a telephone call. She added that, from the time of her detention, she was not given anything to eat or drink and when she tried to report the blows, threats and attempted rape by the police agents who had detained her, she was told that she would have to file that complaint once she had been released from the Center. Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo narrated that she had reserved the right to make a statement before the Public Prosecution Service because she had not been informed of the reason for her imprisonment. Lastly, Bárbara Italia Méndez Moreno described how she was not informed of the offense she was accused of and denied the presence of a lawyer. She stated that she told the authorities that she wanted to put on record that she had been raped and when they began to take her statement, a man arrived who appeared to be their superior, and seeing that she was making a complaint, he “took the paper out of the typewriter and tore it up,” saying “you’re going to reserve the right to make a statement like all of them.” B.4 Medical examinations and expert appraisals performed on the women 106. On May 5 and 6, 2006, ten of the eleven women were interviewed by CNDH personnel. Subsequently, the CNDH issued a medical certificate on the injuries, based on the examination conducted by its own forensic physicians, which recorded the following: a. Yolanda Muñoz Diosdada: several bruises that “correspond to direct blows delivered by hard blunt objects (batons, clubs, shields); based on the coloring […] it can be established that they were produced approximately 24 to 48 hours previously, which is compatible with the day of the events”; b. Ana María Velasco Rodríguez: direct blows delivered by hard blunt objects; based on the coloring, it could be established that they were produced approximately 24 to 48 hours previously, which was compatible with the day of the events; c. Angélica Patricia Torres Linares:118 bruising consistent with direct blows delivered by hard blunt objects. It was also indicated that, based on the coloring, it could be established that this was produced approximately 24 hours previously, which was compatible with the day of the events. Regarding the indecent touching that she recounted, it was indicated that this “usually does not leave traces on the outside; however, the fact that there were no injuries does not exclude that it occurred.” It was On May 6, 2006, she was interviewed by CNDH personnel, to whom she initially said that her name was “Marisol Larios Carvajal.” On May 12, 2006, she was again interviewed by CNDH personnel and, on that occasion, she identified herself as Angélica Patricia Torres Linares, explaining that she had given another name initially because she was afraid since, at the time of her detention, she had been recorded and photographed while being threatened that members of her family would be killed. 118

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