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Court also notes that the submission of some of those documents is extemporaneous17 in
accordance with Article 46(1) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure.
45. Additionally, during the public hearing and as annexes to their final written
arguments, the State submitted several documents to the Tribunal (supra paras. 8 and
10). In this regard, the Court observes that some of those documents had already been
incorporated into the case file,18 that others were requested by the Tribunal19 (supra
paras. 8 and 9) and that most of them refer to events that occurred after the submission
of the answer to the application20 (supra para. 5). However, the State also submitted
17
Order STPSC-0191-71 of the “Fiscal Oil Labor Union members of the FSTPB and of the COB”, issued on
November 3, 1971; “Order of Invitation” to the “Posthumous Tribute of [student] Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas”, by the
President of “Gabriel René Moreno” University, on November 11, 2008; Order addressed Physician Claribel P.
Ramírez H. issued by the Attorney General of the Republic, on October 30, 2004; Document written by Physician
Claribel P. Ramírez addressed to the Attorney General of the Republic, on October 22, 2004; Certificate issued
by the Chief of Personnel of the Dictrict of La Paz Attorney’s Office, Bolivia, on March 1, 2005; Service Rendering
Contract signed between the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic and Physician Claribel Ramírez Hurtado,
on August 31, 2006;
18
These documents include: the “Report: Human Rights Violations in Bolivia,” of the Bolivian Labor
Headquarters, 1976, identified as “Exhibit 12” and submitted by the State during the publc hearing and as an
annex to its final written arguments; copy of a “newspaper of the year 2000 […] in which [Mr.] Tito Ibsen
indicated in an interview that he knew the location of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas’s remains [...]” as well as other
press releases; a copy of the plaque over the alleged tomb of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas, which was handed over
during the public hearing as well as it was attached to the final written arguments, and “Exhibit 2,” which was a
brief dated December 12, 2008 of the representatives addressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights that “Grounded the submission of the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.”
19
Such documents are: copy of the document “Abstentions and Challenge socurred within the Criminal
Proceeding No. 000014222”, and copy of the Final Report of the Argentinian Team on Forensic Anthropology.
20
From the documents that were handed over during the public hearing: “Exhibit 3,” consisting of an
order of the Bolivian Labour Headquarters addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on April 9, 2010; “Exhibit
4,” consisting of and order of the Society of Engineers of Bolivia addressed to the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs,
on February 1, 2010; “Exhibit 5,” consisting of an order of the Secretary Town Councillor Municipal Councel of La
Paz, addressed to the Vice-Minister of Justice and Fundamental Rights, on April 9, 2010, y land of an Municipal
Order “G.M.L.P.” No. 085/2010 issued on April 8, 2010; “Exhibit 6,” consisting of an inter-Institutional
Agreement for Medical Service Rendering in aid of the Family Ibsen-Cárdenas members [sic]” of April 8, 2010;
“Exhibit 7,” consisting of an order of the General Manager of the Postal Company of Bolivia addressed to the
Vice-Minister of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Works, Services and Housing, issued on April 6, 2010;
“Exhibit 8,” consisting of and order of the Attorney General of the Republic addressed to the Foreign Affairs
Minister, on April 6, 2010; in a Summons of the Office of the Attorney General of the State submitted before the
Supreme Court of Justice, and in a Summons of the Office of the Attorney General of the State before the
Supreme Court of Justice, both on “March, 2010” [sic]; “Exhibit 9”, consisting of “Form No. 4, Coordination of
Medium Term with Short Term Planning, Original Summary-Planning of Annual Operations - 2010,” and CIEDF
Report No. 03/10, issued on April 8, 2010. From the documents that were attached to the final written
arguments: Report of the Institue of Forensic Investigations of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic
on the “Ibsen Case”, of March 24, 2010; Note SP II-34/2010 of the Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme
Tribunal of Justice, of May 19, 2010; Note of the Attorney for Remedies of the Office of the Attorney General of
the Republic, issued on May 17, 2010; Note of the President of the “Gabriel René Moreno” Autonomous
University, Order No. 222/10”, issued on April 20, 2010; Note CEUB SNA 091/2010 of the National Academic
Secretary and of the National Executive Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Bolivian University, issued
on ay 5, 2010; Certificate DNRH-RPCC-171/2010 of the Director National of Human Resources of Bolivian Fiscal
Oilfields, issued on May 13, 2010; Administrative Decision No. 059 of the Ministry of Works, Services and
Housing, issued on April 20, 2010; Invitation to the “official ceremony of nomination of the ‘Familia Ibsen’
roundabout”, on May, 2010; Note CEUB SNDI 002 No. 044/2010 of the Executive Committee of the Bolivian
Univeristy, issued on April 12, 2010; Note MJ-VJDF-ADF No. 197/2010 of the Vice-Minister of Justice and
Fundamental Rights, issued on May 4, 2010; Note MJ-VJDF-ADF No. 205/2010 of the Vice-Minister of Justice and
Fundamental Rights, issued on May 12, 2010; Note MJ-VJDF-ADF No. 204/2010 of the Vice-Minister of Justice
and Fundamental Rights, issued on May 12, 2010; Note MJ-VJDF-ADF No 218/2010 of the Vice-Minister of
Justice and Fundamental Rights, issued on May 18, 2010; “Announcement of Invitation to the public ceremony
of presentation and nomination of the ‘Ibsen family’ roundabout;” “Photographs of the ceremony of presentation