46 proceedings be supplied. It must also instruct the Public Prosecutor’s Office to play a “truly leading role” in the investigation, and to avoid lack of investigation of the case; b) the State must adopt such actions and legal measures as may be necessary to ensure that places for detention of minors are adequate and have due permanent control. In this regard, the Commission deemed it necessary for the State to adopt a law pursuant to which detainees who are minors cannot be kept in police stations together with adults, and detention centers for the former must be entrusted to qualified staff for this task; c) the State must adopt such legal, political, and administrative or other measures as may be required to ensure that detainees who are minors are rapidly presented before a judicial authority to review the legality of their detention; d) the State must establish, pursuant to the agreement for a friendly settlement, a committee formed by experts on the subject to review and propose amendments to the laws and decrees, as well as orders, circular letters or institutional communications that make it possible to detain persons on police authority without objectively justifying causes, as well as mistreatment of detainees; and e) the State must publicly acknowledge its responsibility in the instant case, specifically to recognize its international responsibility, publicly and massively, for the illegal detention, torture, and death of Walter David Bulacio, as well as its responsibility for not investigating, for 10 years, what happened and not identifying those responsible. It must publish an acknowledgment of its responsibility in the most important printed media of the country. It must also fund a documentary on the facts in the Bulacio case “for society as a whole to know the details of the violations and the acknowledgment of responsibility made at the time of the agreement for a friendly settlement;” and use all effective means within its power for these symbolic measures to generate interest and participation by the media. Arguments of the State 108. With respect to the aforementioned requests, the State pointed out: a) regarding the request for non-pecuniary measures of reparation, “with the signing by the [g]overnment of the agreement for a friendly settlement, the Republic of Argentina has completely fulfilled said requirements.” In this regard, the State argued that it has acknowledged international responsibility for the case, and this was made public through the country’s main newspapers. In view of the above, it asked the Court to find that the State has complied with the non-pecuniary reparations requested by Inter-American Commission and the representatives of the next of kin of the victim; and

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