A/HRC/45/CRP.11 832. The families and legal representative of all three men did not received official information regarding their whereabouts until their appearance in court on 5 February 2019.1537 833. On 2 February 2019, Colonel Acevedo’s wife, Ms. Jiménez de Acevedo, filed a complaint about her husband’s disappearance with the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Carabobo.1538 On the same day, she travelled to Caracas where she made a series of visits to DGCIM headquarters in Boleíta to inquire about her husband. She received no confirmation about his whereabouts. The Interrogation 834. After arrest, the three men were forced into a truck, and Colonel Acevedo and Colonel Palomo were tied up. Mr. Iabichuela fell and injured his knee while trying to escape. DGCIM officers beat him and tied him up. The men were unable to see where they were taken as DGCIM officers forced them to close their eyes. Upon arrival, the men were forced to strip. They were blindfolded and hoods were placed over their heads. DGCIM officers beat, insulted and threatened them.1539 835. Colonel Acevedo, Colonel Palomo and Mr. Iabichuela were separated. According to the accounts the Mission received, DGCIM officers hit them with a hard cylindrical object, or a board, all over their bodies, DGCIM officers also asphyxiated them repeatedly, using plastic bags, gave them electric shocks and kept them in stress positions for hours. DGCIM officers took them outside into the cold and suspended them from a tree from their handcuffs for hours. They were interrogated and insulted.1540 836. The men do not know how much time passed before DGCIM officers drove them to a mountainous region, where they forced them to walk for hours while blindfolded, barefoot and naked. The men were handcuffed, tied together at the waist and led through bushes and thorns.1541 837. According to reliable information received by the Mission, the three men were later moved to another area, doused with something oily and placed near a fire, making them believe they would be burned. Their captors had machetes and threatened to dismember them. They were deprived of food for many days. Their handcuffs were so tight they cut their wrists. The men felt under the influence of drugs and lost notion of time and space. 1542 838. After a few days, the men were taken back to the house in which they were first detained.1543 Officers removed their hoods and took them to shave and change their clothes, before taking them into a room with video cameras. Interrogators, who had their faces covered, told them to film video statements. 839. The Mission verified a video posted to YouTube showing the three men in the DGCIM facility. According to the CASLA Institute, the video was filmed by a former DGCIM official.1544 The Mission has confirmed with the men’s families that the footage purporting to show Colonel Palomo, Colonel Acevedo and Mr. Iabichuela handcuffed, guarded and lying on the floor, does indeed depict the three men. 840. Mr. Iabichuela can be seen with a bandage on his injured knee, Colonel Acevedo can be seen in the video showing his wounded wrists to an officer who says, “it is infected”. 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 172 Mission Interview C3 DD09, Mission Interview C3DD05 in June 2020. Complaint presented by Mónica Jiménez to Carabobo District Prosecutor on 2 February 2020, on file with the Mission. Documents C3DD04 and C3DD07, on file with the Mission. Mission Interview C3DD09 in June 2020, Mission Interview with C3DD05 in June 2020. Mission Interview with lawyer Emilio Bolívar in June 2020, Documents C3DD04 and C3DD07, on file with the Mission. Documents C3DD04 and C3DD07, on file with the Mission. Ibid. The gate had a distinctive sound, which a detainee explained he had recognized. Ronald Dugarte presented these images through CASLA Institute to the OAS.