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alleged victims stated that they need psychological treatment or that the relationships with
their families and colleagues and friends were affected as a consequence of their professions
of reporters of Globovisión280. Moreover, they mentioned the several negative consequences
that the attacks, insults and threats to which they were subjected, brought to their family
lives, as well as, in many cases, the specific medical problems.
287. In view of the impairments in the personal and professional lives that the alleged
victims declared to have suffered as a consequence of the proven facts and considering the
contexts in which they occured, the Court considers that there are sufficient evidence to
conclude that the State is responsible for the violation of its obligation to guarantee the
right to mental and moral integrity of Aloys Emmanuel Marín Díaz, Ana Karina Villalba,
Aymara Anahí Lorenzo Ferrigni, Beatriz Alicia Adrián García, Carla María Angola Rodríguez,
Carlos Arroyo, Carlos Quintero, Ramón Darío Pacheco Villegas, Edgar Hernández, Efraín
Antonio Henríquez Contreras, Felipe Antonio Lugo Durán, Gabriela Margarita Perozo
Cabrices, Janeth del Rosario Carrasquilla Villasmil, Jhonny Donato Ficarella Martín, John
Power, Jorge Manuel Paz Paz, José Vicente Antonetti Moreno, Joshua Oscar Torres Ramos,
Mayela León Rodríguez, Martha Isabel Herminia Palma Troconis, Richard Alexis López Valle
and Yesenia Thais Balza Bolívar.
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Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and
Eradication of Violence against Woman
288. During the public hearing, the representatives alleged that “of the facts of this case
mentioned in the application, […] 80% of them were committed against female reporters of
Globovisión", including Mrs. Ana Karina Villalba, Aymara Lorenzo, Beatriz Adrián, Carla
Angula, Claudia Rojas, Gladys Rodríguez, Jeannette Carrasquilla, María Arenas, María
Fernanda Flores, Marta Palma Trocones, Mayela León and Yesenia Balsa. They further
asserted that of the 12 women, some of them were repeatedly attacked on two, three and
even four occasions. They alleged that, based on the foregoing, the State is also responsible
for the violation of the right to humane treatment of those persons, "in relation to Article 7
of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of
Violence against Woman, ratified by the Venezuelan State on January 16, 1995”. These
arguments were repeated and supplemented by the representatives in the final written
arguments, in which they also requested the Court to declare the violation of Articles 5, 13,
8 and 25 of the Convention, “in connection with Articles 1, 2 [and] 7(b) of the InterAmerican Convention” previously mentioned.
289. The representatives pointed out that 13 out of the 44 alleged reporter victims, which
represent 30% of the attacked people, are women and they alleged that the physical and
moral attacks the reporters suffered from “mainly responded to the gender". They argued
that the attacks led by private individuals and state agents against the female victims had
the “characteristic of and were committed under the aggravating circumstances […] of the
280
Cf. Affidavit rendered by Beatriz Alicia Adrián García on April 8, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII,
pages 8508-8513); affidavit rendered by Carla María Angola Rodríguez on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence,
volume XXXIII, pages 8774-8778); statement rendered by Carlos Arroyo (records of evidence, volume X, appendix
50 to the brief of pleadings, motions and evidence, pages 3063-3064); statement rendered by Edgard Hernández
(records of evidence, volume X, appendix 50 to the brief of pleadings, motions and evidence, page 3055);
statement rendered by José Vicente Antonetti Moreno (records of evidence, volume X, appendix 50 to the brief of
pleadings, motions and evidence, page 3046); affidavit rendered by Martha Isabel Herminia Palma Troconis on
April 8, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8490-8492); affidavit rendered by Mayela León Rodríguez
on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8768-8772); and affidavit rendered by Richard López
Valle on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8795-8799).
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