ORDER OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
OF FEBRUARY 22, 2011
CHAPARRO ÁLVAREZ AND LAPO ÍÑIGUEZ v. ECUADOR
MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH JUDGMENT
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The judgment on preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs (hereinafter
“the judgment”) delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the
Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) on November 21, 2007, in which it ordered that:
[…]
8.
The State must eliminate forthwith the names of Juan Carlos Chaparro Álvarez and Freddy
Hernán Lapo Íñiguez from the public records in which they still appear with a criminal record […].
9.
The State must immediately inform the relevant private institutions that they should
eliminate from their records any reference to Juan Carlos Chaparro Álvarez and Freddy Hernán
Lapo Íñiguez as authors or suspects of the criminal act of which they were accused in this case
[…].
10.
[…].
The State must publicize this judgment within six months of notification of the judgment
11.
The State must adapt its legislation within a reasonable time to the parameters of the
American Convention on Human Rights […].
12.
The State must adopt forthwith all the administrative or other measures necessary to
eliminate ex officio the criminal record of those persons who are acquitted or whose cases are
dismissed. Also, within a reasonable time, it must implement the pertinent legislative measures
to this end […].
13.
The State and Juan Carlos Chaparro Álvarez must submit to an arbitration procedure to
establish the amounts corresponding to pecuniary damage […].
14.
The State must pay Juan Carlos Chaparro Álvarez and Freddy Hernán Lapo Íñiguez the
amounts established in [... the] judgment, to compensate them for pecuniary and non-pecuniary
damage and for reimbursement of costs and expenses, within one year of notification of th[e]
judgment […].
2.
The orders on monitoring compliance with judgment issued by the Court on April 29,
2009, and May 19, 2010. In the latter, the Court declared that it considered that the
obligations contained in the ninth and eleventh operative paragraphs of the judgment had
been complied with fully, and that the obligation established in the tenth operative
paragraph had been partially fulfilled, and declared that: