8 4. During his imprisonment, Mr. Ramírez has been deprived of liberty: (i) approximately fifteen days (until August 10, 1991) in the basement of the Police Department (Dirección de Policía); (ii) two days in the jail of the Palace of Justice; (iii) three years and one and a half months in Castro-Castro Maximum Security Prison; (iv) six years and one month in Huacariz Prison, in Cajamarca; (v) three years and four months in El Milagro Prison, in Trujillo; and then (vi) transferred again to Castro-Castro Prison, where he is still awaiting trial. 5. Prison conditions in these places did not comply with the requirements laid down in Article 5(2). He was confined in a cell for twenty-three hours and a half a day for a year. Visits sometimes were authorized only at very infrequent intervals; on other occasions, the remote areas where the prisons were located made them impossible. Although the weather conditions prevailing in the area where one of the prisons where he was held was located took a heavy toll on his health and the medical report recommended that he be transferred to a place with warmer climate, he stayed there for over two years, with the resulting consequences for his health. 6. In sum, Mr. Ramírez has been, for over fourteen years, continuously and arbitrarily deprived of his liberty, under prison conditions that violate the American Convention, subject for several years to proceedings that violate Article 8 thereof and, to date, awaiting for final judgment to be rendered in the second proceedings brought against him. The severity of these violations should have been reflected in the reparations ordered by the Court in its judgment. I consider that, at least, the Court should have required, as a means of reparation, that the State, through its relevant bodies, order that, if Mr. Ramírez is convicted, for the purpose of service of sentence, each day spent in prison be computed as two days, in order to redress, to the extent possible, the gross violation committed by State officials to the detriment of Mr. Ramírez. Cecilia Medina-Quiroga Judge Pablo Saavedra-Alessandri Secretary