A/HRC/45/CRP.11 examination was a routine check, not a forensic medical examination in line with the Istanbul Protocol, and the torture marks had disappeared by then.1607 889. On 8 May 2019, the lawyers representing six of the sergeants filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, along with a request to respect and guarantee the physical integrity, the right to life and the right to health of the six men, in accordance with articles 43 and 83 of the Constitution.1608 890. On 11 February 2020, the lawyers brought the precautionary measures issued by the Inter-American Commission in favour of Luis Lobo Medina and Andrés Paredes Soler the attention of the first Military Tribunal. The measures related to their deteriorating health. 1609 The court took no action. Detention in Ramo Verde 891. After the initial appearance hearing, Sergeant Bandres was held for a further two weeks at DGCIM Boleíta and tortured again. On 4 February 2019, he was transferred to Ramo Verde prison and his family was not informed. Having discovered his whereabouts, on 8 February 2019, his family went to Ramo Verde to inquire about him. They were informed that he was in an adaptation period and could not receive visits, during this time Sergeant Bandres was placed in the “El Tigrito” cell for 15 days.1610 892. On 15 February 2019, Sergeant Bandres’wife and children were allowed to see him. His wife told the Mission, “He was extremely thin; he had marks on his legs. His ribs were purple. His arms and hands had cuts. He could hardly move them and he had scars and marks on his face”. She said it was very shocking for her and her children.1611 On another occasion, in April 2019, Sergeant Bandres was punished and left outdoors in the cold and under the rain. He was later put in a dark solitary confinement cell, without a bed, and was not given food. He spent around 15 days there, and suffered gastritis, dehydration and malnourishment.1612 On another occasion on 24 August 2019 DGCIM officers stripped him naked during a cell search, tried to choke him and beat him, breaking two of his ribs. 1613 893. On 28 and 30 August 2019, the families of Sergeants Luis Alexander Bandres, Geomer Martínez Natera, Kelvin Manuel Charles Ramírez and the NGO Foro Penal, representing Sergeant Andres Alfonso Paredes Soler, filed a complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s office, on the treatment inflicted by DGCIM during the search in RamoVerde.1614 894. The journalist Jesús Medina Ezaine was detained in the same annex as Sergeant Bandres at Ramo Verde at the time. He told the Mission that the sergeants had arrived at Ramo Verde with clear signs of torture and that he witnessed DGCIM officers regularly undertaking cell searches during which Sergeants Bandres, Martínez and Camacaro were badly beaten.1615 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 180 The Mission did not have access to this filing due to limited mobility of legal counsel during the Covid-19 restrictions, however, it is referenced by the legal team in the Mission Interview with Foro Penal in June 2020; Mission Interview with Sandra Hernández on 24 June 2020. The Mission did not have access to this filing due to limited mobility of legal counsel during the Covid-19 restrictions; however, it is referenced by the legal team in the Mission Interview with Foro Penal in June 2020. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Resolution 5/2020 Precautionary Measures No. 75119. Mission Interview with Sandra Hernández on 24 June 2020. Ibid. Ibid Written statement made by Luis Bandres on 24 August 2019, during his detention in Ramo Verde shared by Foro Penal on file with the Mission. Information shared by the NGO Foro Penal of claim filed on 30 August 2019, to the Thirteenth Public Prosecutor’s Office on Fundamental Rights and Mission Interview with Sandra Hernández on 24 June 2020. Mission Interview with Jesus Medina Ezaine on 27 July 2020.