Order of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights*
February 7, 2008
Case of Acosta Calderón v. Ecuador
(Monitoring Compliance with Judgment)
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The judgment on the merits, reparations, and costs issued by the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Court” or “the Tribunal”) on June 24, 2005, by
means of which the said Court:
DECLARE[D]:
[u]nanimously, that:
1.
[t]he State violated, in detriment of Mr. Rigoberto Acosta Calderón, the Right to Personal Liberty
enshrined in Article 7(1), 7(3), and 7(5) of the American Convention on Human Rights, in conjunction with
Article 1(1) of the same, in the terms of paragraphs 70, 71, 81, and 84 of this Judgment[;]
2.
[t]he State violated, in detriment of Mr. Rigoberto Acosta Calderón, the Right to Personal Liberty
and Judicial Protection enshrined in Articles 7(6) and 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights, in
conjunction with Article 1(1) of the same, in the terms of paragraphs 97, 99, and 100 of this Judgment[;]
3.
[t]he State violated, in detriment of Mr. Rigoberto Acosta Calderón, the Right to a Fair Trial
enshrined in Articles 8(1), 8(2), 8(2)(b), 8(2)(d), and 8(2)(e) of the American Convention on Human
Rights, in conjunction with Article 1(1) of the same, in the terms of paragraphs 107, 108, 114, 115, 119,
120, and 124 through 127 of this Judgment[;]
4.
[a]t the time in which the facts occurred, the State breached its obligation established in Article 2
of the American Convention on Human Rights in connection with Article 7(5) of the same, in the terms of
paragraphs 135 and 138 of this Judgment[; and]
5.
[t]his Judgment is, per se, a form of reparation in the terms of its paragraph 159.
AND DECIDE[D]:
[u]nanimously, that:
6.
[t]he State must publish, at least once, in Ecuador’s official newspaper and in another
newspaper of ample national circulation, both the section called “Proven Facts” as well as the
operative part of the […] Judgment, without the corresponding footnotes, in the terms of
paragraph 164 of this Judgment[;]
7.
[t]he State must eliminate Mr. Acosta Calderón’s name from the public registries […] in terms of
paragraph 165 of this Judgment[;]
8.
[t]he State must issue payment for the compensations for pecuniary and non-pecuniary
damages to Mr. Acosta Calderón, as well as reimbursement of the costs and expenses to CEDHU
and Messrs. Alejandro Ponce Villacís and Acosta Calderón, within a one-year period, as of
*
Due to reasons of Force Majeure, Judge Manuel Ventura Robles did not participate in the deliberation and signing
of this Order.