21 58.6. During the eight days that she was detained, Maritza Urrutia remained locked in a room, handcuffed to a bed, hooded and with the light on in the room and the radio always on at full volume. Maritza Urrutia could only leave that room when her captors ordered it. She was subjected to long and continuous interrogations regarding her link and that of her former husband to the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP), a member of the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG). During the interrogations, she was threatened with physical torture and that she or members of her family would be killed if she did not collaborate. On numerous occasions, she was warned that she would never see her son again. They showed her some letters that she had written to her son’s father, photographs of her son, her mother and other members of her family, her home and her car, as well as other photographs of guerrilla fighters who had been tortured and killed in combat, telling her that her family would find her in the same condition;35 58.7. During the abduction, her captors obliged her to make telephone calls to her family and lie about her situation;36 Regarding the filming of the video and the statements made by Maritza Urrutia 58.8. Maritza Urrutia was forced to make a filmed statement where she referred to her participation, and that of her former husband and her brother in the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP); she justified her disappearance as a way of abandoning this organization; she thanked all those who had helped her to do this; and she urged her companions to abandon the armed fight. To film the statement, Maritza Urrutia used the clothes and make-up that was provided to her and followed a script that had been drafted by her abductors. Then, she was obliged to communicate with the two television channels to ask them to broadcast the video that she would send.37 On July 29, 1992, the video was broadcast at 10 p.m. by two news programs on Guatemalan television;38 35 Cf. Testimony of Maritza Urrutia before the Court on February 20, 2003; sworn statement of Maritza Urrutia made on February 24, 1993, before a public notary in Washington, D.C., United States (file of attachments to the application, attachment 1, folios 01 to 31); and Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemala, memoria del silencio, Tome VI, illustrative case No. 33, “Privación arbitraria de libertad y tortura de Maritza Urrutia”, pp. 245 to 250 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 2, folios 32 to 37). 36 Cf. Testimony of Maritza Urrutia before the Court on February 20, 2003; sworn statement of Maritza Urrutia made on February 24, 1993, before a public notary in Washington, D.C., United States (file of attachments to the application, attachment 1, folios 01 to 31); Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemala, memoria del silencio, Tome VI, illustrative case No. 33, “Privación arbitraria de libertad y tortura de Maritza Urrutia”, pp. 245 to 250 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 2, folios 32 to 37); and testimony of Edmundo Urrutia Castellanos before the Court on February 21, 2003. 37 Cf. Testimony of Maritza Urrutia before the Court on February 20, 2003; sworn statement of Maritza Urrutia made on February 24, 1993, before a public notary in Washington, D.C., United States (file of attachments to the application, attachment 1, folios 01 to 31); Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemala, memoria del silencio, Tome VI, illustrative case No. 33, “Privación arbitraria de libertad y tortura de Maritza Urrutia”, pp. 245 to 250 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 2, folios 32 to 37); and videocassette entitled “declaración y otras noticias sobre el caso de Maritza Urrutia” [statement and other news of the case of Maritza Urrutia]. 38 Cf. Videocassette entitled “declaración y otras noticias sobre el caso de Maritza Urrutia”; transcript of the video of Maritza Urrutia broadcast on “Notisiete” on July 29, 1992 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 10, folios 68 to 69) and Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemala, memoria del silencio, Tome VI, illustrative case No. 33, “Privación arbitraria de libertad y tortura de Maritza Urrutia”, pp. 245 to 250 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 2, folios 32 to 37).

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