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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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