Rosetta Gianna Pallini González, a militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), died that day in Mexico City due to respiratory failure. The young woman had arrived in that country after being expelled from Chile in March 1975, having spent several months detained at the clandestine detention center of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) located at Londres Nº 38, and at the prisoner camps known as Tres Alamos and Cuatro Alamos.

According to the statement of the doctor who treated her upon her arrival in Mexico City, Rosetta Pallini presented with vaginal destruction, a bladder obstruction, and a severely deteriorated state of general health, aggravated by acute malnutrition and low weight; furthermore, during that time, she developed various respiratory tract infections.

At the end of July of that year, she suffered a gallbladder emergency that required urgent surgery, but she did not recover and died three days after the procedure. The autopsy determined that she had died of natural causes brought on by general physical deterioration.

Eyewitnesses stated that Rosetta Pallini, a student of Pedagogy in History and Geography, was detained in Santiago on August 15, 1974, around 7:00 AM, by members of the DINA, together with siblings Hernán Galo and María Elena González Inostroza and Ricardo Aurelio Troncoso Muñoz.

All of them were taken to Londres Nº 38, a place where, according to other surviving witnesses who were detained with her, she was constantly subjected to interrogations and physical and psychological duress.

She remained in this clandestine facility until August 19, when she was transferred to the prisoner detention centers known as Cuatro Alamos and Tres Alamos. From this location, she was expelled from the country to Mexico City in March 1975, along with other detainees.

The other detainees who were expelled with her noted that the young woman suffered from constant health problems. Her situation was reported to the International Red Cross when they visited the detainees at the latter two detention centers.

The individuals who were detained with her remain in the status of forcibly disappeared. Their cases were reviewed by the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation and qualified as victims of human rights violations.

Considering the evidence gathered and the investigation carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that the deterioration of her health, caused by the torture to which she was subjected by State agents during the period of her detention, had a decisive influence on the death of Rosetta Gianna Pallini González.

For this reason, it declared her a victim of human rights violations.