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e)
train officers of the court, the police, prison officials and personnel,
and all those who are somehow involved in the juvenile detention system, to
instruct them in international standards and principles on that subject;
f)
review all trials prosecuted against the victims, pursuant to the
provisions of Article 249, paragraphs b and c of the Child and Adolescent
Code that recently entered into force;
g)
determine which of the victims are still interned, where they are and
the conditions of their detention;
h)
immediately release all juveniles who were at the center and who are
still in preventive detention;
i)
immediately transfer any minors in adult prisons to proper facilities; if
those facilities are not available, immediately release the minors in adult
prisons;
j)
commute or reduce the sentences of anyone who was at the center
and who is now convicted and serving time in other penal institutions; in
reducing the sentence now being served, shorten it by however much time
the juvenile spent in preventive detention at the center in the period from
August 1996 to July 2001;
k)
make available comprehensive medical and psychological assistance,
to be provided by an interdisciplinary team of professionals experienced in the
care and treatment of juveniles with these kinds of injuries and needs;
l)
provide the surgery or other treatment that those injured in the fire
require, as per the finding of the interdisciplinary team. They requested
immediate surgery for Raúl Esteban Portillo and Pedro Iván Peña;
m)
implement a special and exclusive education program for the
adolescents who had been interned at the center, to treat the particular
problems caused by the absence of a re-education policy and to reverse the
situation;
n)
issue a public acknowledgement of State responsibility, in which the
President of the Republic of Paraguay delivers a public apology to all the
children who were interned at the center and their next of kin;
o)
publish the Court’s judgment in two Paraguayan newspapers with wide
circulations;
p)
prepare and disseminate a video declaring that those sent to the
center were juveniles unjustly and arbitrarily detained; that these juveniles
ended up in prison because of poverty, where they were “savagely and
brutally” tortured and abused; and
q)
investigate the facts in the instant case thoroughly, completely and
impartially so as to identify those responsible for the violations denounced in
the instant case and try and punish them in accordance with the law.
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