Gustavo Humberto Castro Hurtado
Jubilado — 54 years old.
Background
Gustavo Humberto Castro Hurtado
Jubilado — 54 years old.
Case summary
Gustavo Humberto Castro Hurtado, a 54-year-old retiree and Communist Party militant, died on September 14, 1975, as a result of torture inflicted by agents of the Comando Conjunto at the Nido 20 detention center. Although the official version claimed suicide, it was determined that his death was the result of beatings and asphyxiation, constituting a violation of his human rights by agents of the State.
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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On September 14, 1975, Gustavo Humberto CASTRO HURTADO, a PC militant nicknamed "comrade Díaz" or "Chino," was killed by members of the Comando Conjunto. He had been detained in the early hours of the third of that month and taken to Nido 20, where he was tortured.
He was beaten by several agents without being interrogated, dying as a result of the blows. The authorities reported the case as a suicide, but the autopsy protocol indicates the cause of death as asphyxia due to cervical constriction and trauma to the thorax and extremities.
The Commission is convinced that the victim died as a result of the torture inflicted upon him by state agents, who thereby violated his human rights.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=1072