6. In a communication received on July 21, 1997, Dr. Curtis F. Doebbler reported that Dr. Fiona McKay, a lawyer belonging to the international organization Redress Trust, had been appointed as co-petitioner and legal representative of the alleged victim in the case. Furthermore, by means of communications dated September 8 and November 20, 1997, the lawyer, Fiona McKay supplied additional information and a power of attorney letter in which she was appointed legal representative in the case by Mrs. Mónica Feria Tinta. 7. On October 10, 1997, the State presented its observations on the petition. On October 24, 1997, the Commission forwarded the relevant parts of the State’s response to the petitioners, requesting that they make whatever observations they deemed appropriate within a period of 30 days. 8. By means of a communication received by the Executive Secretariat of the IACHR on December 23, 1997, the petitioners lodged their observations on the response from the State, which the Commission transmitted to the State by way of a communication dated January 12, 1998, granting it a period of 30 days to present its observations. 9. On February 13, 1998, the State presented its observations in report No. 253-98JUS/CNDH-SE, which the Commission proceeded to forward to the petitioners granting them a period of 45 days to lodge their observations. On March 10, 1998, the petitioners sent a communication in which they stated that they had no observations in relation to the report from the State and that they believed the positions of both parties had been clearly expressed in previous communications, and the IACHR was asked to proceed to its decision. 10. On March 31, 2000, the Executive Secretariat received a communication from Mrs. Monica Feria Tinta informing the IACHR that Dr. Curtis Doebbler no longer had powers of representation in the case. On April 4, 2000, the Executive Secretariat of the Commission sent a communication to Dr. Curtis Doebbler informing him of the above. 11. On May 31, 2000, the Executive Secretariat received a communication from the petitioner in which she filed additional information relating to the case, which was transmitted to the State on August 17, 2000. 12. On June 29, 2000, the Commission, in accordance with Article 40.1 of its Rules of Procedure, decided to break down file No. 11.769 into two new files, numbered 11.769-A and 11.769-B, and agreed that file 11.769-A would henceforward deal with the part of the petition referring exclusively to the arrest, trial, and other events directly and personally relating to Mrs. Jesús Mónica Feria-Tinta, which are the subject of the denunciations. 13. The IACHR also agreed that file No. 11,769-B would henceforward deal with the events which are the subject of the denunciations that gave rise to case No. 11,769 and which took place in the Castro y Castro prison, Lima, in May 1992. This case was combined with Case No. 11.015 for joint processing, and was lodged with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 13, 2004, and resolved by judgment in the Miguel Castro Castro Prison Case ( Hugo Juárez Cruzatt and Others Case) on November 25, 2006. 14. On January 3 and March 12, 2007, the petitioner submitted additional information concerning the petition, which was duly transmitted to the State. 15. On August 6, 2007, the Executive Secretariat received a communication in which the petitioner informed the IACHR that Dr. Fiona McKay no longer had powers of representation in the case. On August 23, 2007, the Executive Secretariat transmitted the communication from the petitioner of August 6, 2007 to the State, along with its respective appendices. 2