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the events that occurred as of December 6, 1990, and especially as of December 14 of
said year (, date), when Law N° 25 was passed [on the basis of which] 270 government
employees who had participated in a demonstration for labour rights, and who were
accused of complicity for perpetrating a military coup, were arbitrarily dismissed. After
[the arbitrary dismissal of said workers], in the procedure pertinent to their complaints
and demands, a number of violations of their right to the due process and to judicial
protection were committed.
2.
In like manner, the Commission requested the Court to declare that Law 25
and the rule contained in Article 43 of the Constitution of Panama were contrary to
the Convention, since they permitted the retroactive enforcement of the laws and
that, consequently, they should be modified or repealed pursuant to Article 2 of said
Convention. The Commission also requested the Court to require the State to reestablish the 270 workers in the exercise of their rights and to make reparations to
and compensate the victims or their families for the acts committed by its agents, as
established in Article 63(1) of the Convention.
3.
Lastly, the Commission requested that the State should be condemned to pay
the costs and expenses of the proceeding.
4.
The 270 workers that the Commission considers have been the victims in this
case are: Leonidas A. Baena Ricardo, Alfredo Berrocal Arosemena, Francisco J.
Chacón, Arístides Barba Vega, Salvador Vela, Eugenio Delgado, Juan O. Sanjur.
Porfirio Real, Luis del Carmen Melgarejo Núñez, Juan de Gracia, César Aparicio
Aguilar, Fernando Dimas, Eugenio Tejada, Felipe Argote, Luis Cabeza, Rolando
Graham, Rigoberto Enríquez, Ilda Ortega, Ismael Campbell, Carlos Henry, Tomás
Morales, Daniel José Health, Maricela Rodríguez, Miguel Martínez, Carlos Archibold,
Gabino Young, Sergio Marín, Jaime Legal, Enrique Jiménez, Luis Martínez, José
Corvalan, Fernando Hernández, Militza de Justavino, Andrés Guerrero, Marco
Moscoso, Hildebrando Ortega, Saúl Quiroz, Enrique Silvera, Elías Manuel Ortega,
Euribiades Marín, Domingo Montenegro Domínguez, César Augusto Contreras Pérez,
Marina Elena Villalobos, Eduardo Cobos, Iraida Castro, Eduardo Williams, Ricardo
Simmons, Rolando Miller, Yitus Henry, Guillermo Torralba, Eleno García, Alfonso
Chambers, Manuel Sánchez, Francisco Segura, Jorge Cobos, Jorge Murillo, Ricardo
Powel, Antonio Murez, María Sánchez, Lidia Marín, Gustavo Mendieta, Carlos
Márquez, Hermes Marín, Gustavo Martínez, Alejandrina Gordon, Leonel Angulo, Luis
Estribi, Carlos Catline, Orlando Camarena, Errol Vaciannie, Regino Ramírez, Carlos
Mendoza, Luis Coronado, Ricardo Rivera, Rolando Roa, Walters Vega, Modier
Méndez, Tilcia Paredes, Alexis Díaz, Marisol Matos, Rigobeno Isaac, Jorge Aparicio,
Ramiro Barba, Eugenio Fuentes, Algis Calvo, Marcos Tovar, Elberto Cobos, Yadira
Delgado, Mireya Rodríguez, Ivanor Alonso, Alfonso Fernández, Rodolfo Campos,
Nemesio Nieves, Judith Correa, Edgar de León, Arnoldo Aguilar, Marisol Landao,
Wilfredo Rentería, Segismundo Rodríguez, Pedro Valdez, Ricardo Guisepitt, Javier
Muñoz, Marcos Guerrero, Nicolás Soto, Ernesto Walker, Adela De Góndola, Víctor
Julio Carrido, David Clavo, Germán Gálvez, Aldo D'andrea, Jorge Rivas, Hugo Pérez,
Diómedes Romero, Paulino Villareal, Euclides Madrid, Nelson Alvarado, Arturo
González, Aurelio González, Miguel Prado P., Roberto Guerra, César De Ovaldia, Luis
Bedoya, José Guaitoto, Tomás González, Florentino Cerrión, Carlos Philips, Rómulo
Howard, Alexis Cañas, Nelson Cortés, Roselio Luna, David Jaén, José Pérez, Luis
Cárdenas, Jorge Alegría, Andrés Alemán, Perlina De Andrade, Luis E. Anava,
Santiago Alvarado, Javier Atencio A., Víctor Arauz, Pedro Atencio, Álvaro Arauz,
Rubén Darío Barraza, Carlos Beamont, Samuel Beluche, Andrés Bermúdez, Miguel
Bermúdez, Luis Benuil, Alba Berrio, Marcos Bracamaya, Mario Brito, José Blanco,
Víctor Bock, Víctor Buenaño, Jaime Batista, Heliodo Bermúdez, Luis Batista, Jaime