54 162. In relation to non-pecuniary damage, the Commission indicated that: a) The Court has established a presumption in relation to the nonpecuniary damage suffered by the victims of human rights violations and their next of kin; b) During her clandestine captivity, Maritza Urrutia experienced profound psychological suffering; she felt that she was under the constant threat of being physically tortured, raped or assassinated, or that her son would be assassinated. Furthermore, she was subjected to measures designed to obliterate her personality such as forced insomnia and a state of absolute defenselessness and vulnerability, which caused her gastric and intestinal problems. The effects of the psychological torture to which she was subjected continued for a considerable time. During the first years following her release, the victim suffered from fear, nightmares, and a permanent feeling of vulnerability because she had been identified by members of a State agency, who had “abused” her, protected by the cloak of impunity. Nowadays, Maritza Urrutia continues to suffer the effects of the trauma, manifested by periods of anxiety; and c) The Commission estimates non-pecuniary damage in the symbolic sum of US$55,000.00 (fifty-five thousand United States dollars), in consultation with the victim and her representatives. Arguments of the representatives of the victim 163. The representatives of the victim stated that they endorsed the indications of the Commission concerning reparation for the non-pecuniary damage suffered by the victim. However, in the brief with final arguments they presented a list of the amounts requested for this concept, as follows: a) Maritza Urrutia should be compensated with US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand United States dollars) for the treatment she received during her captivity and solitary confinement. This includes compensation for psychological torture, unlawful and arbitrary detention, infringement of her privacy and that of her family when she was shown photographs of the latter and discovered that she was being watched, pressure to lie to her next of kin and to public opinion and mislead public opinion through the media, in violation of Articles 5, 8, 7, 11, 13 and 25 of the Convention and Articles 1 and 6 of the Convention against Torture. In addition, the representatives requested US$20,000.00 (twenty thousand United States dollars) for the aftereffects of the said violations for the victim, which still continue; b) Fernando Sebastián Barrientos Urrutia, the victim’s son, should be compensation with US$12,000.00 (twelve thousand United States dollars), because it must be presumed that the victim’s suffering affected her son, who was separated from his mother, and knew and shared her suffering. They added that the fact that Fernando Sebastián has lived alone with his mother, traumatized and far from his next of kin, means that, in some way, he has shared the problems she suffers. Since he is a minor, he merits special treatment from the State, owing to the violation of Articles 1, 5, 11, 13, 19, 8 and 25 of the Convention; c) Edmundo Urrutia Castellanos and María del Pilar García, the victim’s parents, should each be compensated with US$10,000.00 (ten thousand United States dollars), as compensation, based on the presumption that a victim’s parents incur non-pecuniary suffering owing to the fate of their child,

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