10 2. Also, the IACHR decides to join the analysis of the requirement of prior exhaustion of internal remedies with the merits, regarding the possible violation of Articles 8 and 25. Additionally, through application of the principle of iura novit curiae, the Commission will analyze during the merits phase the possible violation of Article 5.1 of the Convention. 3. To give notice of this decision to the Honduran State and to the petitioners. 4. To continue with its analysis of the merits of the complaint. 5. the OAS. To publish this decision and to include it in the Annual Report to the General Assembly of Done and signed in the city of Washington, D.C., on March 31, 2011. (Signed): Dinah Shelton, President; José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, First Vice-President; Rodrigo Escobar Gil, Second VicePresident; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Felipe González, Luz Patricia Mejía Guerrero, y María Silvia Guillén, Commissioners.