TABLE OF CONTENTS
I INTRODUCTION OF THE CASE AND PURPOSE OF THE DISPUTE .................................... 4
II PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT ........................................................................ 5
III JURISDICTION .................................................................................................... 6
IV PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS .................................................................................... 7
A. Preliminary objections to lack of ratione temporis and ratione materiae jurisdiction .... 7
A.1. Arguments of the parties and of the Commission ............................................... 7
A.2. Considerations of the Court ............................................................................. 7
B. Preliminary objection on failure to exhaust domestic remedies in relation to the request
for reparation.......................................................................................................... 8
B.1. Arguments of the parties and of the Commission ............................................... 8
B.2. Considerations of the Court ............................................................................. 9
V TESTIMONY ......................................................................................................... 10
A. Admissibility of documentary evidence ................................................................. 10
B. Admissibility of the statements of the alleged victims, testimonial, and expert evidence
........................................................................................................................... 11
VI FACTS .............................................................................................................. 12
A. About Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal ....................................................................... 12
B. Facts of July 17, 1980 and the attempts to find the whereabouts of Juan Carlos Flores
Bedregal .............................................................................................................. 13
C. Judicial and administrative proceedings ................................................................ 15
C.1. Ordinary criminal proceeding "Public Prosecutor v/ Franz Pizarro Solano et al." .... 15
C.2. Administrative procedure pursuant to Ministerial Resolution No. 316/09 ............. 21
D. Attempts to identify remains as part of the search for Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal .... 22
VII MERITS .......................................................................................................... 23
VII-I RIGHTS TO JURIDICAL PERSONALITY , LIFE, HUMANE TREATMENT AND
PERSONAL LIBERTY, IN RELATION TO THE OBLIGATION TO RESPECT AND
GUARANTEE THE RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION AND ARTICLE I.a) OF
THE ICPPT ............................................................................................................ 23
A. Arguments of the Commission and the parties....................................................... 23
B. Considerations of the Court................................................................................. 24
B.1. Forced disappearance of persons ................................................................... 24
B.2. Examination of the case ................................................................................ 27
VII-II RIGHTS TO JUDICIAL GUARANTEES AND JUDICIAL PROTECTION IN
RELATION TO THE DUTY TO RESPECT AND GUARANTEE RIGHTS .......................... 29
AND ARTICLES I.(b) AND III OF THE ICPPT ......................................................... 29
A. Arguments of the Commission and the parties....................................................... 30
A.1. Due diligence and reasonable time ................................................................. 30
A.2. Definition of the crime of forced disappearance of persons ................................ 31
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