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1.
Declares that Peru has violated the right to life recognized in Article 4(1) of the American
Convention on Human Rights, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of Víctor NeiraAlegría, Edgar Zenteno-Escobar and William Zenteno-Escobar.
2.
Declares that Peru has, to the detriment of the three persons cited, violated the right to
habeas corpus established in Article 7(6), in relation to the prohibition established in Article 27(2)
of the American Convention on Human Rights.
3.
Decides that Peru is obliged to pay fair compensation to the next of kin of the victims on
the occasion of these proceedings and to reimburse the expenditures that they have incurred in
their petitions before the national authorities.
4.
Decides that the form and extent of the compensation and the reimbursement of the
expenditures shall be determined by Peru and the Commission, by mutual agreement, within a
term of six months as of the date of notification of this judgment.
5.
Reserves the power to review and approve the agreement and, should there be no
agreement, to determine the extent of the compensation and expenditures, to which effect the
Court does not close this case.
Done in Spanish and in English, the Spanish text being authentic, at the seat of the Court in San
José, Costa Rica, on January 19, 1995.
Héctor Fix-Zamudio
President
Hernán Salgado-Pesantes
Rafael Nieto-Navia
Alejandro Montiel-Argüello
Máximo Pacheco-Gómez
Manuel E. Ventura-Robles