The Supreme Court confirmed last Friday, in a unanimous ruling, the conviction of the operational command of the Regional Intelligence Center (CIRE) for the kidnapping and forced disappearance of Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) militant Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz.

Rudy Cárcamo was kidnapped from his home in Talcahuano at midnight on Friday, November 27, 1974, and held at the Talcahuano Naval Base of the Chilean Navy. There, he was tortured to death in the locker rooms—used as dungeons—of the Francisco Acosta Stadium at the Naval Base sports complex, adjacent to the indoor gymnasium and the access to the Asmar shipyard.

His body was buried in the gardens of the Hualpén Museum and his remains were subsequently exhumed during the so-called "Operation TV Set Removal," ordered personally by the despot, as was proven in the judicial process.

Those convicted are: the Head of the Navy Intelligence Department, Ancla Dos, Frigate Captain Hugo Nelson González D'Arcangeli: 5 years and one day of imprisonment; Assistant to the Head of the Intelligence Department, Sea Lieutenant Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera: 5 years and one day of imprisonment; Carabineros Captain Conrado Alfredo Sesnic Guerricabeitia: 5 years and one day of imprisonment; Inspector of the former Chilean Investigative Service, now PDI, Osvaldo Francisco Harnish Salazar: 5 years and one day of imprisonment; and, finally, Navy Second Lieutenant José Raúl Cáceres González: 5 years and one day of imprisonment. All sentences are without benefits, meaning they must serve the prison terms effectively. They were also sentenced to the accessory penalties of absolute perpetual disqualification for public offices and positions and political rights. The military and police ranks mentioned are those they held at the time of the kidnapping. Due to their repressive services, they later reached high ranks in their institutions. In Concepción, both the extraordinary visiting judge Carlos Aldana Fuentes and the Court of Appeals had sentenced them to 541 days of imprisonment, with the benefit of conditional remission of the sentence, meaning they would only serve time in prison if they committed a new crime. In short, a laughable sentence; in practice, judicial impunity for the criminals. The Supreme Court, however, in a split decision, increased the sentence to five years and one day of effective imprisonment and perpetual disqualification of their political rights. Justice Milton Juica was in favor of increasing them to ten years and one day, given the nature and gravity of the investigated crime, while Justice Hugo Dolmestch was in favor of maintaining the first-instance sentences of 541 days, conditionally remitted. The Regional Intelligence Centers were created in 1974 throughout the country and operated in those places where the DINA did not reach, but in coordination with it. They were composed of the intelligence departments of the different branches of the armed forces, Carabineros, and Investigations. In Concepción, it had its clandestine facilities on the third floor at the corner of Barros Arana and Pasaje Portales, above what was the "Pujol delicatessen," currently Banco Banefe. Its commander was always an Army lieutenant colonel, and its operational command was composed of those currently convicted and Carabineros Captain Sergio Arévalo Cid, all of them acting as heads of a large contingent of sailors, marines, non-commissioned officers, and troops from the Army, Carabineros, and civil police. Since its creation in 1974, the CIRE of Concepción had a prisoner camp at the Talcahuano Naval Base sports complex, where it operated until mid-1975, at which time it was moved to the old facilities of Fuerte El Morro, adjacent to the El Morro Stadium on Avenida Blanco Encalada in that port. It remained in this latter place until approximately 1982. In its facilities at the Talcahuano Naval Base, in addition to Rudy Cárcamo, they murdered the Brazilian internationalist Jane Vanini in December 1974 and the Socialist mayor of Cañete, Elías Jana Santibáñez, in February 1975. In September of that year, they murdered Oscar Arros in Lota when they were taking him from Fuerte El Morro to force him to denounce his party comrades in that city, which he refused to do. In coordination with the DINA, they murdered Eulogio Fritz Monsalve in Santiago in February 1975, who had assumed the regional leadership of the MIR in September 1973, following the desertion of its regional committee. At the time of his extrajudicial execution, he had survived the dismantling of the leadership headed by journalist José Carrasco Tapia, "Pepone," and the internationalist Jane Vanini in December 1974. Hundreds of political prisoners were kidnapped by agents of this repressive body and tortured both at the Francisco Acosta stadium at the Naval Base and at Fuerte El Morro, almost all of them militants of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, who had organized to resist the military dictatorship from the very moment of the 1973 coup d'état. The prison sentence for those who executed, with military means, the political repression of the popular resistance movement against the military dictatorship, restores social order through legal means, putting an end to an impunity that was offensive and disturbing to the civilized conscience of the community. The imposition of the accessory penalty, on all those convicted, of perpetual disqualification of their political rights, places them on the margins of society, as in justice it should be. They have been stripped of their status as citizens, the maximum sanction in the political and social order of our homeland.

Source: resumen.cl, May 30, 2012

The visiting judge of the Concepción Court of Appeals, Carlos Aldana, prosecuted retired Navy captain José Cáceres Gonzalez as the perpetrator of the qualified kidnapping of MIR leader and former member of the Personal Friends Group (GAP) of President Salvador Allende, Rudy Cárcamo.

Last Tuesday, Judge Aldana led the reconstruction of the scene of Cárcamo's imprisonment inside the Talcahuano Naval Base, which was decisive in the decision made official today. Cárcamo was a MIR leader, and was captured on November 27, 1974.

Later, he was taken to the Navy stronghold, where his trail was lost. For this same case, Judge Aldana interrogated last week the former head of the dissolved National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), General (ret.) Manuel Contreras, and seven other high-ranking retired officers of the Army and Carabineros, implicated in various human rights cases being investigated in the Eighth Region.

Source: La Nación, February 23, 2006

5 former security agents sentenced for qualified kidnapping

A group of former political prisoners of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) arrived at the Concepción Palace of Justice where the sentencing of 5 defendants for the case of the disappearance of Rudy Cárcamo was notified.

The Judge of the Concepción Court of Appeals, Carlos Aldana, notified the five individuals linked to and convicted of the kidnapping and subsequent disappearance of Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz, a former MIR militant who went missing in November 1974.

José Raúl Cáceres González, Navy Captain (ret.), Hugo Nelson González, Corvette Captain (ret.), Osvaldo Harnish Salazar, Conrado Sesnic, Carabineros Colonel (ret.), and Eugenio Garay, detective (ret.), received a sentence of 5 years and one day. They will serve the sentence in the Punta Peuco and Puerto Montt detention centers.

Source: 24horas.cl, July 20, 2012

Supreme Court issues sentence in human rights case

The Supreme Court issued a final judgment in the investigation into the qualified kidnapping of Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz, which occurred in Talcahuano on September 27, 1974. In a unanimous ruling, they determined to apply sentences of 5 years and one day of imprisonment without benefits to Hugo Nelson González D’Arcangeli, Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera, Conrado Alfredo Sesnic Guerricabeitia, Osvaldo Francisco Harnish Salazar, and José Raúl Cáceres González.

In the first instance—and confirmed by the Concepción Court of Appeals—a sentence of 541 days with the benefit of conditional remission of the sentence had been issued for each defendant.

Source: Fasic.org, May 25, 2012

Murderous officers go to prison

The Supreme Court confirmed, on May 24, the conviction of the operational command of the Regional Intelligence Center (Cire) for the kidnapping and forced disappearance of Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) militant Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz.

Rudy Cárcamo was kidnapped from his home in Talcahuano on the night of November 27, 1974, and held at the Talcahuano Naval Base. There, he was tortured to death in the locker rooms, used as dungeons, of the Francisco Acosta stadium, at the Naval Base sports complex, adjacent to the indoor gymnasium and the access to the Asmar shipyard.

Those sentenced to 5 years and 1 day of imprisonment are the head of the Navy Intelligence Department (Ancla Dos), Frigate Captain Hugo Nelson González D’Arcangeli; the assistant to the head of the Intelligence Department, Sea Lieutenant Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera; Carabineros Captain Conrado Alfredo Sesnic Guerricabeitia; the inspector of the former Investigative Service, now PDI, Osvaldo Francisco Harnish Salazar; and, finally, Navy Second Lieutenant José Raúl Cáceres González.

All sentences are without benefits, meaning they must serve the prison terms effectively. They were also sentenced to the accessory penalties of absolute and perpetual disqualification for public offices and positions and political rights.

The military and police ranks mentioned are those they held at the time of the kidnapping. Due to their repressive services, they later reached high ranks in their institutions. In Concepción, both the investigating judge, Carlos Aldana, and the Court of Appeals, had sentenced them to 541 days of imprisonment, with the benefit of remission of the sentence, meaning they would only serve time in prison if they committed a new crime.

In short, a laughable sentence; in practice, judicial impunity for the criminals. The Supreme Court, however, in a split decision, increased the sentence to five years and one day of effective imprisonment and perpetual disqualification of their political rights.

Justice Milton Juica was in favor of increasing them to ten years and one day, given the nature and gravity of the investigated crime, while Justice Hugo Dolmestch was in favor of maintaining the first-instance sentences of 541 days, remitted.

DINA EXTENSIONS

The Regional Intelligence Centers were created in 1974 throughout the country and operated in those places where the DINA did not reach, but acted in coordination with it. They were composed of the intelligence departments of the different branches of the Armed Forces, Carabineros, and Investigations.

In Concepción, it had its clandestine facilities on the third floor at the corner of Barros Arana and Pasaje Portales, above what was the Rotisería Pujol, currently Banco Santander. Its commander was always an Army lieutenant colonel, and its operational command was composed of those currently convicted and Carabineros Captain Sergio Arévalo Cid, all of them acting as heads of a large contingent of sailors, marines, non-commissioned officers, and troops from the Army, Carabineros, and detectives.

Since its creation in 1974, the Cire of Concepción—known as Ancla 2—had a prisoner camp at the Talcahuano Naval Base sports complex, where it operated until mid-1975, at which time it was moved to the old facilities of Fuerte El Morro, adjacent to the El Morro stadium on Avenida Blanco Encalada.

It remained in this latter place until approximately 1982. In its facilities at the Talcahuano Naval Base, in addition to Rudy Cárcamo, they murdered the Brazilian internationalist Jane Vanini in December 1974, and the Socialist mayor of Cañete, Elías Jana Santibáñez, in February 1975 (Jane Vanini was secretary of Punto Final).

In September of that year, they murdered Oscar Arros in Lota when they were taking him from Fuerte El Morro to force him to denounce his comrades in that city, which he refused to do. In coordination with the DINA, they murdered Eulogio Fritz Monsalves in Santiago in February 1975, who had assumed the regional leadership of the MIR in September 1973.

Hundreds of political prisoners were kidnapped by agents of this repressive body and tortured both at the Francisco Acosta stadium, at the Naval Base, and at Fuerte El Morro. Almost all of them were MIR militants, who had organized to resist the military dictatorship from the very moment of the 1973 coup d'état.

The imposition of the accessory penalty on all those convicted, of perpetual disqualification for public office and political rights, places them on the margins of society. They have been stripped of their status as citizens, the maximum sanction in the political and social order of our homeland.

THE RUDY CARCAMO CASE

Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz, married, one child, a worker and MIR militant, was detained on November 27, 1974, around 10:00 PM. Cárcamo lived at the home of his in-laws, who witnessed, along with his spouse—Lilian Alegría Erices—the arrest.

Three subjects in civilian clothes appeared, armed with submachine guns, who identified themselves as police. After asking for the individual, they proceeded to take him away, stating that they were taking him to the Investigations barracks.

However, he was taken immediately to the Talcahuano Naval Base, where, that same night, another prisoner, Jaime Oehninger Gatica, had to identify him. At the Naval Base, he was placed in the gymnasium, isolated in a room.

According to the testimony of Luis Enrique Peebles, who was a prisoner in the same facility in December of that year, the detainees were assigned a number by which they were called. He was in the gymnasium in a room, and in the adjacent room was prisoner No. 105, isolated from the rest.

According to what Jaime Oehninger told him, this detainee was Rudy Cárcamo. Peebles was taken out on December 24, 1974, and upon returning on the 31st of the same month, he no longer heard noises in the adjacent room, and when the guard relief took roll call, No. 105 was no longer called out.

Another detainee who saw Cárcamo at the Naval Base was Sergio Armando Medina Viveros. Previously, on October 16, 1973, Rudy Cárcamo was detained at his home at the time, in the Lenín neighborhood of Talcahuano, where he was an active participant in community activities.

In this detention, he was taken to Isla Quiriquina and later to the Talcahuano Naval Base gymnasium, where he remained until July 21, 1974, when he was released without being prosecuted. He then went to live at his in-laws' house, from where he was detained three months later.

Source: Punto Final, edition No. 759, June 8, 2012.

Supreme Court grants parole to Talcahuano Naval Base torturer

The Supreme Court issued a ruling favorable to former Carabineros colonel Conrado Alfredo Sesnic Guerricabeitía, a torturer who was part of ANCLA 2 at the Talcahuano Naval Base, convicted for the crime of MIR militant Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz, who had been detained in Punta Peuco since 2012.

The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Parole Commission and ordered that the criminal against humanity enjoy parole. Conrado Alfredo Sesnic Guerricabeitía, a former Carabineros colonel and one of the interrogators at the Talcahuano Naval Base along with other criminals such as Hugo González D'Arcangelli, Víctor Donoso Barrera, Osvaldo Harnish Salazar, and José Cáceres González, was granted parole after a ruling issued by the Supreme Court.

The ruling, retrieved by La Tercera, states: "The decision adopted on August 11 by the Santiago Parole Commission is rendered ineffective, only insofar as it resolved to reject the benefit of parole requested by the protected party and, in its place, it is decided that it is granted, with his immediate release to be arranged for the effective enjoyment of the benefit." The defense for the criminal against humanity filed an amparo (habeas corpus) appeal against the Parole Commission of the Santiago Court of Appeals, which on August 11 had refused to grant the benefit.

Sesnic Guerricabeitía has been denounced in many human rights violation cases in the region. He was part of the regional repressive police that sought to annihilate the MIR. Because of these actions, Sesnic appears linked to the torture and disappearance of the Talcahuano MIR militant Rudy Cárcamo Ruiz, known as "the Vietnamese," a case for which he was convicted along with other criminals against humanity.

Rudy Cárcamo was kidnapped from his home in Talcahuano at midnight on Friday, November 27, 1974, and held at the Talcahuano Naval Base of the Chilean Navy. There, he was tortured to death in the locker rooms—used as dungeons—of the Francisco Acosta Stadium at the Naval Base sports complex, adjacent to the indoor gymnasium and the access to the Asmar shipyard.

His body was allegedly buried in the gardens of the Hualpén Museum and his remains were subsequently exhumed during the so-called "Operation TV Set Removal," ordered personally by Pinochet, with the trail of his remains being lost.

In said judicial case, in a ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Justice, former Navy officers Hugo Nelson González D'Arcangeli, Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera, and José Raúl Cáceres González, as well as former Carabineros colonel Conrado Alfredo Sesnic Guerricabeitía and former investigative officer Osvaldo Francisco Harnish Salazar, were sentenced to five years and one day of imprisonment, without benefits.

It should be noted that in the first instance, these same defendants had been sentenced by Judge Aldana to only 541 days of imprisonment with conditional remission of the sentence, meaning they would serve the punishment in full freedom, which constituted a travesty of the work of justice.

This ruling had been ratified by the Concepción Court of Appeals, confirming the trend of judicial lack of judgment. Today, this judicial lack of judgment scales to the highest judicial authority in the country, which today once again becomes part of the impunity enjoyed by the criminals of the dictatorship.

Source: resumen.cl, September 13, 2016

Santiago Court orders immediate release for the head of the Ancla 2 torturers of the Talcahuano Naval Base

In a questionable decision by the judiciary, the Santiago Court of Appeals accepted the amparo appeal presented by Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera—a member of Ancla 2 belonging to the CIRE (Regional Intelligence Center) convicted for the qualified kidnapping of MIR member Rudy Cárcamo—against the Ministry of Justice, declaring as arbitrary the latter's refusal to sign the decree granting freedom to the former sailor.

Donoso Barrera is serving a sentence of 5 years and one day for the qualified kidnapping of Rudy Cárcamo in 1974, the year since which he has been disappeared. The parole commission of the Santiago Court of Appeals granted him, despite being a prisoner convicted of crimes against humanity, a sentence reduction of 10 months, so he would be in a position to be released. "It is an undisputed fact that the convicted person began serving the sentence on July 20, 2012, culminating on July 17, 2017.

Under these circumstances, the Sentence Reduction Commission has reduced the protected party's sentence by a total of ten months, by resolutions dated November 14, 2013, with two months; November 17, 2014, with two months; November 19, 2015, with three months; and November 15, 2016, with 3 months respectively.

Consequently, as of September 18, 2016, the protected party has completed the corporal sentence," the ruling maintains. Donoso Barrera, a former naval officer, along with other beasts, such as the head of Naval Intelligence for the area, Hugo González D'Arcangelis; the naval officer José Cáceres González; the Investigations official Osvaldo Harnisch Salazar; and Carabineros officer Conrado Sesnic—the latter also granted parole—was part of the Regional Intelligence Center (CIRE), a repressive body that was in charge of detaining, torturing, and disappearing left-wing militants in the Eighth Region. Through their hands passed, to mention only 3 emblematic cases, the forcibly disappeared Rudy Cárcamo—"the Vietnamese," a MIR militant from Talcahuano—Jane Vanini—a MIR internationalist militant—and the former mayor of Cañete, Elías Jana, who died under torture.

Source: resumen.cl, January 3, 2017

Judge Méndez prosecutes retired Navy officials for torture of a student

The extraordinary visiting judge for human rights violation cases of the Concepción Court of Appeals, Yolanda Méndez Mardones, issued an indictment against five retired Navy officials for their responsibility in the crime of applying torture to Héctor Wladimir Carvallo Ospital.

The crime was perpetrated in October 1973 in the city of Talcahuano. In the resolution (case file 3-2018), Judge Méndez Mardones identifies the former Navy personnel José Raúl Cáceres González, Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera, Luis Eduardo Kohler Herrera, Ary Antonio Acuña Figueroa, and Julio Humberto Salvador Alarcón Saavedra as authors of the torture applied to Carvallo Ospital, a high school student at the time of the events.

Héctor Wladimir Carvallo Ospital was 18 years old, a third-year high school student and MIR militant, when on October 6, 1973, he was detained by Carabineros officials at the house he shared with his parents, located on Calle Cañerías s/n, Hualpencillo sector, Talcahuano commune.

His captors, who did not show a competent warrant, took him to a police station in that commune, beating him repeatedly from the moment they left the house and asking him about grenades that he had supposedly given in a box to Rodrigo Leiva Canales.

Once at the Carabineros facility, he was taken to a cell, where they continued to beat him and also applied electric current while he was naked, in order to obtain information about the contents of the box, which his captors insisted were grenades.

The next day he was handed over to a group of marines, who took him to the Francisco Acosta Stadium, a place where the Navy Intelligence Service was operating at that time, whose head was Ary Acuña Figueroa.

After remaining there for about 20 days, he was transferred along with a group of prisoners belonging to the MIR to the indoor gymnasium of the Talcahuano Naval Base and was subsequently taken to the Navy facilities known as Fuerte Borgoño.

A detainee named Tulio Gáez broke during the torture and confessed that Carvallo Ospital had weapons hidden in his house, which is why they were confronted, and after confessing that this was the case, Navy personnel went to his house and found some weapons, so the torture continued.

He continued to be subjected to intense interrogations about the weapons by people who belonged to the Navy, according to the victim, with physical duress such as making him go down a staircase sitting down with his feet tied so that he would hit himself on the steps; they also performed "the submarine," which consisted of submerging his head in a drum of sewage water while holding him by the hair; and, likewise, "the bell or the telephone," which consisted of striking him with an open hand on his ears, as a result of which one of his eardrums burst, resulting in serious damage.

Those injuries lasted over time, as upon arriving in Norway once he went into exile, he had to undergo treatment because he was still losing blood. Another form of torture was running a knife over his body, causing many wounds and leaving scars, so that due to the deplorable physical state he was in, he was never granted visits.

In Judge Méndez's resolution, it is indicated that the events described constitute "repeated crimes of application of torture," which also constitute crimes against humanity "since the punishable acts were perpetrated in a context of serious, massive, and systematic violations of the rights of detained persons, verified by State agents, who had at their disposal all the material and economic means to carry out a state policy of exclusion, persecution, and/or extermination of citizens who, immediately and subsequent to September 11, 1973, were identified as belonging to or sympathizing with the political regime deposed by the military government that assumed control of the country..."

Source: agenciadenoticias.org, April 15, 2022

Former Navy officers prosecuted for kidnapping and torture at Talcahuano Naval Base in 1974

The extraordinary visiting judge for human rights violation cases of the Concepción Court of Appeals, Yolanda Méndez Mardones, issued an indictment against five former Navy officers for their responsibility in the crime of kidnapping with serious injury of Rubén Ángel Roca Zapata, perpetrated in July 1974 at the Talcahuano Naval Base and Isla Quiriquina.

In the resolution (case file 7-2018), Judge Méndez Mardones prosecuted Hugo Nelson González D’Argangeli, Víctor Ernesto Donoso Barrera, José Raúl Cáceres González, Luis Eduardo Kohler Herrera, and Julio Humberto Salvador Alarcón Saavedra as co-authors of the crime, in the nature of a crime against humanity, against the laboratory technician of the Organic Chemistry Department of the University of Concepción at the time of the events, who was detained at Fuerte Borgoño, the Talcahuano Naval Base, and Isla Quiriquina in the Biobío region, and finally transferred in April 1975 to the Tres Álamos prisoner center in the Metropolitan Region. For the court, the facts constitute the crime of kidnapping with serious injury provided for and punished in Article 141, paragraph 3 of the Penal Code, in its text in force at the time of the investigated events, in the degree of consummated, committed to the detriment of the person of Mr. Rubén Ángel Roca Zapata. In this regard, the resolution specifies: "That the aforementioned illicit act is, moreover, a crime against humanity, since the punishable acts were perpetrated in a context of serious, massive, and systematic human rights violations of detained persons, verified by State agents, who had at their disposal all the material and economic means to carry out a state policy of exclusion, harassment, persecution, and/or extermination of citizens who, immediately and subsequent to September 11, 1973, were identified as belonging to or sympathizing with the political regime deposed by the military government that assumed control of the country from the indicated date," it concludes. In the case, the visiting judge ordered the total house arrest of the defendants, while the Concepción Court of Appeals resolves the provisional release on bail of the individuals. Likewise, she ordered the PDI Human Rights Crimes Investigation Brigade to personally notify the defendants Hugo Nelson González D’Argangeli, Ernesto Donoso Barrera, José Raúl Cáceres González, and Luis Eduardo Kohler Herrera of the issued resolution, while for Julio Alarcón Saavedra, said procedure will be carried out by Gendarmerie officials, as he is being held at the Punta Peuco Penitentiary Compliance Center. In the investigation stage, Judge Méndez Mardones gathered sufficient evidence to consider it proven that: "In the month of July 1974, Rubén Ángel Roca Zapata was ordered to be detained by the authorities of the Intelligence Service of the Security Interior Jurisdictional Area Command (SICAJSI) of Concepción, presumably due to his political orientation, being taken to the detention facility established since September 11, 1973, by the Navy, located at the Talcahuano Naval Base, where the Ancla II Intelligence Department of the Second Naval Zone operated, directed since the beginning of 1974 by Frigate Captain Hugo González D’Arcangeli, seconded by 2nd Lieutenant OM Víctor Donoso Barrera, and in which a group of interrogators was arranged, all organized and coordinated by the military commands, with the object that he provide information about his political activities and places or hideouts of weapons that had supposedly arrived from abroad to the port of Lirquén. The victim, a 25-year-old chemical laboratory technician at the time, an official of the Organic Chemistry Department of the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Concepción, and at the same time a third-year student of Chemistry Pedagogy at the same university, was at the time a sympathizer of the MIR, but was not registered nor did he militate in any political party. The complainant, Rubén Ángel Roca Zapata, was detained on July 3, 1974, in the afternoon, at his workplace, located at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Concepción, by three State agents—two of them Carabineros—who were wearing civilian clothes, who took him to the Talcahuano Naval Base. Once there, they put a blindfold on his eyes, and hours later they took him out of the gymnasium and took him to a room to be interrogated; in the place, he was stripped, handcuffed by his feet and hands behind his back, while they began to apply various tortures that were repeated at intervals for several days."

Source: elrodriguista.org, September 6, 2023