10 35. That the representatives informed that, “there have been acts of violence that have affected the direct victims of the case.” They added that in an interview carried out with some of the victims on August 31, 2009, in the city of Asunción, “all the victims [interviewed] denounced that they are constantly submitted to harassment by the police, who investigate their work activities, ask them for money, or threaten them with incriminate them for the commission of different crimes.” They specifically denounced two cases in which the victims suffered acts of violence. In the month of April 2009, once of the victims was extra-legally detained, her house was illegally and violently searched, and she was extorted in exchange for her freedom after being detained for several hours. They also stated that on December 13, 2008 one of the victims that had testified before this Tribunal, Osmar Verón López, who was imprisoned in the Tacumbú Prison, passed away “in a fight between inmates […] without the State having offered the means necessary to guarantee his personal integrity.” In fact, they received information that “he was transferred to an area of the prison that was extremely dangerous.” They considered that “[t]his death in itself is a worrying sample of the lack of care the State has had in the protection of those who testified in this case.” They requested that the State inform of the investigations started with regard to this death. 36. That the Commission did not present specific observations regarding compliance of this obligation. 37. That the Court observes that the representatives informed of the death of one of the victims that offered his testimony in the present case, Mr. Osmar Verón López. On the other hand, acts of harassment against some victims were recorded and motivated the start of the corresponding administrative proceedings. The Tribunal considers it necessary that the State, in its next report, refer to: a) the investigation started because of the death of Mr. Osmar Verón López, and b) the progress in the mentioned administrative proceedings, which, according to the Time Line, is scheduled to be concluded in January 11, 2010. * * * 38. That regarding payment of the compensations for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages to the victims and their next of kin (sixteenth and seventeenth operative paragraphs of the Judgment), and the reimbursement of the expenses and costs to the victims’ representatives (eighteenth operative paragraph of the Judgment), the State informed that, after the two partial payments corresponding to the 2006 and 2007 Tax Years, for the 2008 tax year it included budgetary credits within the General Budget of the Nation for “the amount of [Guaraníes] 3,800,000,000, corresponding to the third payment made by the State,” which was made effective through Decree No. 12,594 of August 5, 2008. In reference to the fourth payment, it stated that the Ministry of Hacienda has included the amount of “[Guaraníes] 3,800,000,000 in the General Budget for the Nation’s Expenses [of 2009],” and over this amount they are carrying out the corresponding processes for its execution. Finally, it indicated that “it had requested the inclusion of the remaining amount in the General Expense Budget of the year 2010.” That during the public hearing for monitoring compliance, the State informed that 39. the Treasury made a transfer for [Guaraníes] 3,800,000,000 equal to US$ 764,587.00 [seven hundred and sixty four thousand five hundred and eighty seven dollars of the United States of America] for payment of the corresponding compensations, which was available for its collection on September 30, 2009. Likewise, it reiterated that it had already requested the inclusion of the remaining balance, equal to US$ 572,000.43 [five