violation of human rights
FROM THE ARREST TO THE FIRST VISIT

Our inexplicable feeling of impotence begins right from the arrest. When the police burst into our home at night, they left violently everything upside down and take our relative arrested. This image remains long hours in our minds and with no information at all.

Furthermore, the media, using police's filtrations, accuses and condemns those under arrest without being taken to court.

They incomunications can last for days. Nowadays, the police can keep a person under incomunication for 5 days and after being seen by the judge, this can lengthen it for an unknown period.

Those moments, when they are arrested and once we obtain the authorisation to visit them, are extremely hard. We find destroyed people as a consequence of the torture suffered at the police station.

It is a dreadful feeling of impotence, not only because the impunity the judges give to the police, but also because of the police's filtrations to the media and the silence of institutions when faced with the torture.