Abstract
The present judgment of the Inter-American Court situates itself framed in this remarkable civilizing juridical evolution. Even before the present case Maritza Urrutia versus Guatemala, the Court had already pronounced itself on the violation of the right to the integrity (in the case Loayza Tamayo versus Peru,) and on the psychological torture. An international legal regime of absolute prohibition of all forms of torture, both physical and psychological, has been conformed, and it has been recognized that the threats and real danger of subjecting a person to physical harm produces, in given circumstances, such a degree of moral anguish that it may be considered 'psychological torture'. The absolute prohibition of torture, in all its forms, belongs today to the domain of the international jus cogens. There is no alternative to this juridical evolution moved by human conscience; outside this latter, it would be the return to barbarism.Keywords: Inter-American Court; international legal regime; Maritza Urrutia versus Guatemala; torture
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