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THEREFORE:
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
by virtue of the authority conferred upon it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on
Human Rights and Articles 27 and 31 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure,
DECIDES:
1.
To require the State to adopt immediately and definitively any necessary and
effective measures to prevent loss of life and harm to the physical, mental and moral
integrity of all those deprived of liberty in the Ciudad Bolívar Judicial Detention Center, also
known as the Vista Hermosa Prison as well as of any person who may be in the Center.
2.
To order that the processing of the matters of the Monagas Detention Center (“La
Pica”), the Capital Region Penitentiary Center Yare I and Yare II (Yare Prison), the
Occidental Region Penitentiary Center (Uribana Prison), the Capital Detention Center El
Rodeo I and El Rodeo II, the Aragua Detention Center “Tocorón Prison,” and the Ciudad
Bolívar Judicial Detention Center “Vista Hermosa Prison” be joindered.
3.
To order that these joint provisional measures be known hereafter as the “Matters of
specific Venezuelan detention centers.”
4.
To require the State to submit a single report every three months as of the
notification of this Order, referring, specifically, to the measures that it is adopting to
protect the life and integrity of the beneficiaries, as indicated in the twentieth considering
paragraph of this Order. The beneficiaries of the measures or their representatives shall
present their observations on the said reports jointly in a single brief within four weeks of
receiving them. Similarly, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights shall present
its observations in a single brief within six weeks of receiving the State’s reports.
5.
To order the Secretariat to notify this Order to the State of Venezuela, the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, and the representatives of the beneficiaries.
Diego García-Sayán
President
Leonardo A. Franco
Margarette May Macaulay
Manuel E. Ventura Robles
Rhadys Abreu Blondet