CAT/C/52/D/366/2008 discharge since they believed that he was not suffering from any illness that would justify his internment in the centre. 2.14 Between November 2004 and April 2006, the author was moved between Prison Unit No. 15 in Río Gallegos and Unit No. 6 in Rawson, then back to Unit No. 15 and again to Unit No. 6. 2.15 On 23 August 2006, the author’s father and sister asked the Attorney-General of Chubut province to reopen the case concerning the author’s castration, and alleged that the investigation carried out was insufficient and based on questionable medical reports. In this regard, they noted that, on 13 June 2006, an interdisciplinary technical team from Prison Unit No. 6 had issued a report containing conclusions on the injuries sustained on 17 November 2003 that were contrary to those reached in the criminal investigation, in that this new report did not state that the testicular ablation had taken place on that date. 2.16 In response to the request, the Office of the Attorney-General commissioned officials from the Public Prosecution Service and Trelew city police to analyse the proceedings related to the complaint of castration submitted by the author’s father in 2003. 2.17 On 9 October 2006, these officials informed the Attorney-General that, on the basis of the evidence contained in the file on the case initiated in relation to the author’s castration and the statements obtained from the persons questioned, there was nothing to indicate that an offence had been committed and, on the contrary, all the evidence collected suggested that the author had deliberately injured himself. There were therefore insufficient grounds to reopen the case. They drew attention to statements given by a number of persons who had been detained in the same unit as the author and who maintained that the author had injured himself, and removed his testicles himself. Some of the detainees also stated that the author had been acting strangely and aggressively in the days leading up to the accident. For example, Mr. M., who was summoned to make a statement regarding the day of the events, stated that on arriving at the place in which the author was being held, he saw him sitting on a pillow, in silence, seemingly withdrawn from reality, with blood on his body, that beside him, on the floor of the cell, there was a testicle, and that the author had simply said he had been bewitched. 2.18 On 6 and 20 November 2006, the judicial investigative police submitted two additional reports to the Office of the Attorney-General, which confirmed its initial recommendation. The reports included the statements of additional police officers, a firefighter who had come to the author’s aid in prison and a person who had been held in the same unit as the author, which corresponded to the statements previously submitted to the Office of the Attorney-General. 2.19 On 30 January 2007, the Office of the Attorney-General of Chubut asked the Office of the Under-Secretary for Human Rights to provide a list of impartial and independent medical professionals who could conduct a physical and psychological examination of the author. On 7 February 2008, the Office of the Attorney-General arranged a medical examination with one of the psychiatrists suggested by the Office of the Under-Secretary, who was a member of the Argentine Psychosocial Work and Research Group, for 15 and 16 February 2008. However, the medical assessment could not be conducted due to a lack of administrative coordination and the opposition of the author’s defence counsel. On 31 March 2008, the First Chamber dismissed the defence counsel’s objection to the medical examination on the grounds that it had been ordered by the Office of the Attorney-General in the context of an investigation that was unconnected to the sentence enforcement proceedings being supervised by the Chamber. 2.20 At the request of the author’s defence counsel, on 7 December 2007, a psychologist of their choosing issued a clinical psychological report on the author’s mental state of health which concluded that the author was suffering from a “persistent post-traumatic GE.14-06259 5