an order issued April 19, 2021. 7 The public hearing was held using virtual technology on May
10 and 11, 2021, during the 141st regular session of the Court. 8
11. Amici Curiae. The Court received two amicus curiae briefs filed by: (a) the Human Rights
Clinic of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law; 9 and (b) the Gender, Law, and Society
Research area of the Human Rights Group of Universidad Externado de Colombia. 10
12. Helpful information and evidence. On May 12, 2021, the President of the Court asked
the parties to submit certain documents and information. 11 The State responded to the request
on May 14, 2021, and by submitting its final written arguments. The representative responded
in its final written arguments. Likewise, on June 17, 2021, the Commission was asked to
submit specific information on its processing of the case file. 12 On June 23, 2021, the
Commission did so. Also, in a communication dated June 24, 2021, the President asked for
certain information from the parties related to the request of May 12 of that year. 13 The parties
responded to this request through briefs filed on June 30 and July 1, 2021. Lastly, on July 12,
2021, information was requested from the parties on specific procedures carried out in the
legal cases at the domestic level. 14 The parties responded to the request in briefs filed on July
15 and 16, 2021.
13. Final written arguments and observations. On June 11, 2021, the Commission submitted
its final written observations, and the representative and the State forwarded their final written
arguments, together with a number of annexes.
14. Observations on the annexes to the final arguments and the requests for helpful
information and evidence. On June 23, 2021, the representative presented its observations
on the response provided by the State to the request of May 12 of the same year, including
The Court granted the reconsideration and agreed to receive the statement of Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti
Yáñez at the public hearing. Cf. Case of Julien Grisonas et al. v. Argentina. Order of the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights of April 19, 2021. Available at: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/juliengrisonas_19_04_21.pdf.
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This hearing was attended by the following: (a) on behalf of the Inter-American Commission: Julissa Mantilla
Falcón, First Vice President; Marisol Blanchard, Deputy Executive Secretary, Jorge Meza Flores and Analía Banfi Vique,
advisors; (b) representing the alleged victims: Eduardo Marques Iraola and Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez, and
(c) for the Argentine State: Alberto Javier Salgado, director of the International Human Rights Litigation Office of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Religion; Gonzalo Luis Bueno, legal advisor of the International
Litigation Office on Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Religion; Andrea Viviana
Pochak, undersecretary for Protection and International Human Rights Liaison of the National Human Rights Office of
the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights; Gabriela Laura Kletzel, national director of international legal affairs
regarding human rights of the National Human Rights Office of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights; and Rodrigo
Albano Robles Tristán, legal advisor of the National Office of International Legal Affairs regarding Human Rights of
the Human Rights Office of the Nation of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
9
The brief was signed by Ariel Dulitzky. The document refers to international standards on forced disappearance
and the doctrine of shared responsibility between States.
10
The brief was signed by María Daniela Díaz Villamil, Jessika Mariana Barragán, Laura Valentina Rocha Marcelo,
Valentina Benítez Torres, Mariana Orozco Pinzón, and Juliana Valentina Prieto. It refers to measures of reparation
with a gender approach in cases related to serious human rights violations.
11
On May 12, 2021, the parties were asked to provide the following: (a) a copy of the case file of the lawsuit for
damages filed in 1996 by the alleged victims against the National State, case No. 14,846/96; (b) information on the
status of the processing of the administrative procedures filed in under Laws No. 24,411 and 25,914, and (c) to the
State, to forward a copy of the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation mentioned by expert witness
María José Guembe in her opinion delivered at a public hearing.
12
On June 17, 2021, the Commission was asked to report whether it had included the opinion of August 17,
2017 issued by the National Human Rights Office in its case file on the matter.
13
On June 24, 2021, the parties were asked to report on the suspension of the administrative case files being
processed under Laws No. 24,411 and 25,914, and the State was asked to report on amendments to articles 2560
and 2561 of the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation.
14
On July 12, 2021, the parties were asked to report on the responses given the alleged victims’ requests
regarding the intervention and consultation of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in connection with the
search for the remains of Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite and Mario Roger Julien Cáceres, as well as other
measures requested in this regard.
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