3 Camarena, Juanerje Carrillo, Robustiano Castro, Ladislao Caraballo, Reynaldo Cerrud, Manuel Corro, Minerva De Campbell, Xiomara Cárdenas, Cayetano Cruz, Luciano Contreras, Nataniel Charles, Domingo De Gracia, Fernando Del Río G., Antonia De Del Vasto, Manuel Del Vasto, Roberto Escobar, César Espino, Jaime Espinosa, Jorge Ferman, Julio Flores, Alexis Garibaldi, Eduardo Gaslin, Rolando Gómez, Antonio González, Benito González, Eric González, Raúl González R., Evangelista Granja, Rubén Guevara, Alfredo Guerra, Esther María Guerra, Rita Guerra, Melva Guerrero, Aníbal Herrera, Félix Herrera, Magaly De-Herrera, Manuel Herrera, Pompilio Ibarra, Daniel Jiménez, Rolando Jiménez, José A. Kelly, Eric Lara, Dennis Lasso, Dirie Lauchú, Luis A. Laure, Gilberto Leguizamo, Darien Linares, César Lorenzo, Zilka Lou, Jorge Martínez, Manrique Mejía, Luis Miranda, Oran Darío Miranda, Luis Montero, Valentín Morales, Natalio Murillo, Raúl Murrieta, Estabana Nash, Amed Navalo, Sergio Ochoa, Antonio Ornano, Gustavo Ortiz, Ornar Oses, Luis Osorio, Miguel A. Osorio, Evelio Otero, Esteban Perea, Medardo Perea, Cristina Pérez, Fredy Pérez, Rubén Darío Pérez, Mario Pino, Giovani Prado, Pablo Prado, Tomás Pretel, Juan B. Quijada, Donay Ramos, Dorindo Ríos, Iris Magaly Ríos, Ricardo Ríos, Syldee Ríos, Vladimir Ríos, Luis Risco, Alidio Rivera, Amos Darío Rodríguez, Anelly De Rodríguez, Isac M. Rodríguez, Ernesto Romero, Sandra L. De Romero, Ramón Ruiz, Benigno Saldaña, Jaime Salinas, Ilka De Sánchez, Luis Sánchez, José Santamaría, Cristóbal Segundo, Tomás Segura, Enrique Sellhom, Teresa De Sierra, Sonia Smith, Elvira De Solórzano. Luis Sosa, Víctor J. Soto, Rafael Tait Yepes, Josefina Tello, Daniel Trejos, Ricardo Trujillo, Luis Tuñón, Marisina Ubillus, Manuel Valencia, Rodolfo Vence, José Villareal y Rodolfo Winter. II COMPETENCE 5. Panama has been a State Party to the American Convention since June 22, 1978 and recognised the jurisdiction of the Court on May 9, 1990. Therefore, the Court is competent to hear the instant case. III PROCEEDING BEFORE THE COMMISSION 6. On February 22, 1994 the Secretariat of the Commission received a petition from the Panamanian Human Rights Committee on behalf of 270 public employees dismissed as a consequence of Law 25 of December 14, 1990. On July 6, 1994 the Commission informed the State of the petition and requested it to present the corresponding information within 90 days. 7. On July 24 and October 19, 1994, the Commission sent the State additional information presented by the complainant and, in the latter communication, requested it to adopt the pertinent measures to present all its reports within 60 days. 8. On September 9, 1994, Panama presented its reply to the Commission, which forwarded it to the complainant on October 25, 1994, and on January 24, 1995, the complainant presented its observations to this document, which were forwarded to the State on January 31, 1995. 9. On February 14, 1995, the State presented its observations to the additional information that the Commission had forwarded on October 19, 1994, and on March 1, 1995, the Commission forwarded them to complainant.