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Leon, Mervyn Edmund, Alfred Frederick, Nigel Mark, Wayne Matthews, Steve
Mungroo, Vijay Mungroo, Wilson Prince, Martin Reid, Noel Seepersad,
Ganga[d]een Tahaloo, Keiron Thomas, Samuel Winchester, Peter Benjamin,
Kevin Dial, Andrew Dottin, Anthony Johnson, Amir Mowlah, Allan Phillip,
Krish[e]ndath Seepersad, Narine Sooklal, Mervyn Parris and Francis Mansingh.
5.
To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to send
its observations on the reports of the State of Trinidad and Tobago to the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights within six weeks of their receipt.
6.
To urge the State of Trinidad and Tobago and the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights to inform the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights immediately of any significant developments concerning the
circumstances of the cases of Wenceslaus James, Anderson Noel, Anthony
Garcia, Christopher Bethel, Darrin Roger Thomas, Haniff Hilaire, Denny
Baptiste, Wilberforce Bernard, Naresh Boodram, Clarence Charles, Phillip
Chot[a]lal, George Constantine, Rodney Davis, Natasha De Leon, Mervyn
Edmund, Alfred Frederick, Nigel Mark, Wayne Matthews, Steve Mungroo, Vijay
Mungroo, Wilson Prince, Martin Reid, Noel Seepersad, Ganga[d]een Tahaloo,
Keiron Thomas, Samuel Winchester, Peter Benjamin, Kevin Dial, Andrew
Dottin, Anthony Johnson, Amir Mowlah, Allan Phillip, Krish[e]ndath Seepersad,
Narine Sooklal, Mervyn Parris and Francis Mansingh.
2.
The communication of October 18, 2001, which was received in the
Secretariat of the Court on October 19 of the same year, in which the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the
Commission”) submitted to the Tribunal, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American
Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the
Convention”) and Article 25 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter “the Rules
of Procedure” or “the Rules”), a request for the amplification of the Provisional
Measures adopted by the Court in the James et al. Cases, to include Balkissoon
Roodal (Case No. 12.342), Sheldon Roach (Petition No. P12.346), Arnold Ramlogan
(Petition No. P12.355), Beemal Ramnarace (Petition No. P12.377) and Takoor
Ramcharan (Petition No. P0197/2001), whose petitions or complaints are currently
pending before the Commission against the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
(hereinafter “the State” or “Trinidad and Tobago”).
3.
The aforesaid communication, in which the Commission requested the Court
to order the State to
take all measures necessary to preserve the lives and physical integrity of
Balkissoon Roodal, Sheldon Roach, Arnold Ramlogan, Beemal Ramnarace and
Takoor Ramcharan so as not to hinder the processing of their cases before the
Inter-American system.
4.
The arguments for the amplification of the Provisional Measures presented by
the Commission are based on the following:
a)
there are five additional petitions pending before the Commission
received between November 2000 and April 2001, concerning events
alleged to have occurred, in whole or in part, before the denunciation
of the Convention by the State and that indicate that Balkissoon
Roodal, Sheldon Roach, Arnold Ramlogan, Beemal Ramnarace and
Takoor Ramcharan have been sentenced to the death penalty for the
crime of murder in Trinidad and Tobago;