8 visited by their next of kin:) there was a decrease in the total number of detainees and an increase of physical space occupied by the beneficiaries after 434 inmates have been transferred and a third block has been opened in the Centro de Detención Provisional (“Provisional Detention Center”) at the Araraquara Penitentiary. However, there are approximately 1,000 beneficiaries of the present measures divided into three cellblocks, and d) regarding the fifth issue to be resolved (investigate the facts that have given rise to the adoption of the measures:) the State has mentioned that there would be an administrative investigation pending in order to investigate the responsibilities related to the riot of June 16, 2006, but it has not stated which proceedings, if any, are related to the investigation of those responsible for the injuries that are alleged to have been caused to some beneficiaries on July 10, 2006, nor any information was stated regarding the permanent detention conditions that the beneficiaries have had to endure at the Araraquara Penitentiary. 9. The Order of the Court issued on September 27, 2006, by means of which the following was decided: 1. To commission the President, Judge Sergio García-Ramirez; the Vice-President, Judges Antônio A. Cançado Trindade and Manuel E. Ventura-Robles, to attend to a public hearing that has been convened for September 28, 2006 in the seat of this Court and to adopt the decision that they may deem pertinent. [...] 10. The public hearing regarding the request for provisional measures, which hearing was held on September 28, 2006, where the following persons were present, to wit: by the Inter-American Commission: a) Florentín Meléndez, Delegate; Ariel Dulitzky, Assistant Executive Secretary; and Leonardo Jun Ferreira-Hidaka, legal counsel; b) by the representatives of the beneficiaries: Helio Pereira-Bicudo, from the Fundación Interamericana de Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (“InterAmerican Foundation for the Defense of Human Rights”,) and Carlos Eduardo Gaio, from Justicia Global (“Global Justice”;) and c) by the representatives of the State: Renata Lúcia de Toledo-Pelizon, International Advisor of the Secretaría Especial de Derechos Humanos (“Human Rights Special Secretariat”;) Marcia Adorno CavalcantiRamos, Chief of the División de Derechos Humanos (“Human Rights Division”) of the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (“Ministry of Foreign Affairs”;) Mauricio Keuhne, General Director of the Departamento Penitenciario Nacional (“National Penitentiaries Department”;) Carla Polaina-Leite, Fabrício Vierira, Public Prosecutor of the Departamento Penitenciario Nacional (“National Penitentiaries Department”;) Sérgio Ramos-Brito, representative of the Abogacía General de la Unión (“General Advocacy Office of the Unión”,) and Elival da Silva-Ramos, Procurador General (“Attorney General”) of the state of San Paulo. 11. The allegations and documents submitted by the State at the public hearing before the Court, by means of which it informed, in brief, the following, to wit: a) the Araraquara Penitentiary was a model detention center before the riots that took place at the beginning of 2006, moment at which most of such Penitentiary was destroyed. In such Penitentiary, 727 of the total number of detainees had the possibility of developing certain activities such as carpentry, cooking; b) on September 20, 2006, all inmates detained at the Araraquara Penitentiary were transferred to other 35 penitentiaries, in order to complete

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