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134.27
On November 12, 1993, the Tekojojá Foundation filed a petition of
generic habeas corpus to denounce the conditions at the Institute and to get the
inmates relocated to adequate facilities.101
The petition did not address any
internment proceedings conducted in the case of these inmates.102
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In Final Judgment No. 652, delivered on July 31, 1998, the Civil and
Commercial Law Judge of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, granted the writ of generic
habeas corpus filed by the Tekojojá Foundation on behalf of the inmates at the
Center, and ordered the State to take the measures necessary to relocate the
inmates to adequate facilities.103 Despite the court order, the inmates on whose
behalf the writ of habeas corpus was granted remained at the Center.104
1)
The fire on February 11, 2000
Paraguay in Washington, D.C., to the Minister of Justice and Labor wherein he informs the Minister of the
protest notes and claims of human rights violations in connection with the case of the ‘Panchito López’
Center (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 17, volume I, folio 92);
testimony given by Ms. María Elizabeth Flores Negri at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the
Republic of Paraguay, March 24, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the InterAmerican Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 115); testimony
given by Mr. Fernando Vicente Canillas Vera at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic
of Paraguay, March 22, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American
Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 6); testimony given by Ms.
Ana María De Jesús Llanes Ferreira at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic of
Paraguay, March 23, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American
Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 89); March 9, 2001 report
titled “Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Paraguay”, prepared by the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 24, folios 807 and 808);
note dated July 26, 2001, from Ms. Gloria Elizabeth Ramírez, criminal prosecutorial agent for juvenile
offenders, to the deputy prosecutor, Dr. Diosnel Cansio Rodríguez, with regard to the July 26, 2001 fire
and the complaints received by the Specialized Unit for Juvenile Offenders in connection with the constant
threat of the outbreak of riots at the Center (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections,
answer to the application and observations on the pleadings and motions, appendix 24, volume III, folio
900).
100
Cf. testimony given by Ms. María Elizabeth Flores Negri at the Office of the Chief Government
Notary of the Republic of Paraguay, March 24, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the
Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 116).
101
Cf. Brief filing the petition of generic habeas corpus, dated November 12, 1993 (file of
appendixes to the application, appendix 52, folios 614-633 and file of appendixes to the written brief of
pleadings and motions, appendix 39, volume I, folio 240); Report of the Coordinator of Human Rights of
Paraguay (CODEHUPY), “Human Rights in Paraguay, 1996” (file of appendixes to the application, appendix
55, volume I, folio 649); Judgment of the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth
Rotation, Final Decision No. 652, July 31, 1998 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 20, folios
289 et seq.).
102
Cf. Brief filing the petition of generic habeas corpus, dated November 12, 1993 (file of
appendixes to the application, appendix 52, folios 614-633 and file of appendixes to the written brief of
pleadings and motions, appendix 39, volume I, folio 240).
103
Cf. Judgment of the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, Final
Decision No. 652, July 31, 1998 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 20, folio 320); brief filing
the petition of generic habeas corpus, November 12, 1993 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix
52, folios 614-633).
104
Uncontested fact.
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