3 González,14 Julio César García, José Amado Jara Fernando,15 Alberto David Martínez, Miguel Ángel Martínez, Osvaldo Espinola Mora,16 Hugo Antonio Quintana Vera,17 Juan Carlos Viveros Zarza,18 Eduardo Vera, Ulises Zelaya Flores,19 Hugo Olmedo, Rafael Aquino Acuña,20 Nelson Rodríguez, Demetrio Silguero, Aristides Ramón Ortiz B.21 and Carlos Raúl Romero Giacomo22 sustained in three fires at the Center. 3. The Commission also petitioned the Court to find that the respondent State had violated Articles 5 (Right to Humane Treatment), 7 (Right to Personal Liberty), 19 (Rights of the Child), 8 (Right to a Fair Trial) and 25 (Judicial Protection) of the American Convention, all in relation to Article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of all juveniles incarcerated at the Center at any time in the period between August 14, 1996 and July 25, 2001, and those juvenile inmates subsequently remanded to the country’s adult prisons. 4. The Commission’s contention was that the “Panchito López’ Center embodied a system that was the antithesis of every international standard pertaining to the incarceration of juveniles, given the allegedly grossly inadequate conditions under which the children were interned. Specifically, those conditions involved a combination of: overpopulation, overcrowding, lack of sanitation, inadequate infrastructure, and a prison guard staff that was both too small and poorly trained. 5. According to the Commission, after each of the three fires, all or some of the alleged victims were remanded to adult prisons in Paraguay; it further alleged that the vast majority of the juveniles transferred to adult prisons were in pretrial detention. To make matters worse, the adult prisons to which they were sent were elsewhere in the country, far from the juveniles’ defense attorneys and families. 6. The Commission also petitioned the Court, pursuant to Article 63 of the Convention, to order the State to ensure the exercise of the violated rights to the alleged victims and their next of kin and to adopt certain measures of pecuniary and non-pecuniary compensation. 14 This person’s name also appears as Clemente Luis Escobar and as Clementino Luis Escobar. The Court will henceforth use the name Clemente Luis Escobar González. 15 This person’s name also appears as José Amado Jara Fernández, and as José Amado Jara. The Court will henceforth use the name José Amado Jara Fernández. 16 This person’s name also appears as Osvaldo Mora Espinola. The Court will henceforth use the name Osvaldo Mora Espinola. 17 This person’s name also appears as Hugo Vera Quintana. The Court will henceforth use the name Hugo Antonio Vera Quintana. 18 This person’s name also appears as Juan Carlos Zarza. The Court will henceforth use the name Juan Carlos Zarza Viveros. 19 This person’s name also appears as Cándido Ulice Zelaya Flores. The Court will henceforth use the name Cándido Ulises Zelaya Flores. 20 This person’s name also appears as Rafael Oscar Aquino Acuña. The Court will henceforth use the name Oscar Rafael Aquino Acuña. 21 This person’s name also appears as Arístides Ramón Ortiz Bernal. The Court will henceforth use the name Arístides Ramón Ortiz Bernal. 22 This person’s name also appears as Carlos Raúl Romero García. The Court will henceforth use the name Carlos Raúl Romero Giacomo.

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