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including the activities of the alleged victims in this case; iv) the alleged
attacks and harassment after the detention and imprisonment of Messrs.
Cabrera García and Montiel Flores, and v) the alleged impact of these facts
on the “organizational process of OCESP and the capacity of its members to
freely associate;”
6)
Héctor Magallón Larson, Coordinator of Greenpeace Forest and
Jungle Campaign, Mexico, an expert in environmental and deforestation
matters, a witness proposed by the representatives, who deposed on the
following aspects: i) the “knowledge that Greenpeace-Mexico had on the
[alleged] deforestation of the forests in Guerrero state and, particularly, in
the region of Sierra de Petatlán and Coyuca de Catalán;” ii) the reasons
giving rise to Greenpeace involvement in the campaign to release Messrs.
Cabrera García and Montiel Flores; iii) “[the] overview of the [alleged]
adversities faced in Mexico by environmental community defenders,
stressing the [alleged] lack of protection of peasants and natives struggling
to preserve the ecosystems of their communities;”
7)
Miguel Carbonell Sánchez, a researcher at Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de Mexico [National Autonomous University of Mexico], expert
witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission, who deposed on the
following aspects: i) “the participation of military justice in the investigation
and trial of the crime which are not based on and/or which could be human
rights violations;” ii) “the theses of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice in
relation to [the] scope of the application of military justice in Mexico,” and
iii) “the constitutional and legal regulation of the scope of application of
military justice in Mexico;”
8)
Ernesto López Portillo Vargas, an expert on public security, Executive
Director of Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia A.C. (Institute for
Security and Democracy) (Insyde) and Adviser to the Comisión de Derechos
Humanos del Distrito Federal (Human Rights Commission of the Federal
District), expert proposed by the representatives, who deposed on the
following aspects: i) “the security policies implemented by the State […]
whereby the armed forces have been [allegedly] involved in public security
tasks and the [alleged] lack of adequate domestic or civil controls over the
actions of such armed forces;” ii) “the profile that law-enforcement officials
should have,” and iii) the minimum necessary control standards to
guarantee an adequate rendering of accounts by such entities, the
consequences for their actions and the respect for the human rights of the
civil population vis-à-vis the lack of adequate control;
9)
José Luis Piñeyro, a sociologist and a researcher, Professor at the
Sociology Department of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Campus
Azcapotzalco, an expert witness proposed by the representatives, who
deposed on the following aspects: i) “the particular context of militarization
in Guerrero [state] ;” ii) “the reason for and the impact of the presence of
the Armed Forces on the rural communities of Guerrero and on the peasant
movement, highlighting the [alleged] patterns of human rights violations
committed against civilians by the military;” iii) “the aspects of the [alleged]
militarization in Guerrero which are particular to this [s]tate and that [would
be] fundamental to understand the reasons for the military to [allegedly]
detain, torture and make up crimes against the [alleged] victims and [how]
the facts described occurred;” iv) “the present situation in Guerrero
regarding the [alleged] militarization and the impact of the anti-drug fight
on rural communities,” and v) “the reparation measures that the Mexican
State should adopt in this case;”
10)
Ana C. Deutsch, an expert in Clinical Psychology with experience in