Judge Isaura Tórtora ordered Daners’ prosecution for five counts of abuse of authority against detainees and five counts of deprivation of liberty against 10 members of the Communist Party and the Union of Young Communists, detained in 1977 and tortured at the FUSNA headquarters.

The detainees were subjected to interrogations involving torture, including waterboarding, electric cattle prods, and beatings of varying intensity.

The FUSNA clandestine center was run by the deceased Lieutenant Commander Jorge Juansolo, while Second Lieutenant Jorge Tróccoli, convicted in Italy for human rights violations against Italian citizens as part of Operation Condor, was the unit’s intelligence link.

Daners was the unit’s examining magistrate and was singled out by the victims.

“At that time at the FUSNA, the person who interrogated us without a hood was examining magistrate Tabaré Daners; he interrogated us face to face, a few meters from the room where we were tortured,” Senator Eduardo Brenta testified in the case.

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