13 psychiatrists and medication, all of which had affected his family life, especially since a disappearance had been the cause of his suffering. 32. On August 7, 1997, the Inter-American Commission submitted the brief containing its final arguments, in which it maintained that it had fully demonstrated that Guatemala had violated many of the rights (enshrined) in the American Convention. It reiterated its request that the Court declare Guatemala responsible for the forced disappearance of Mr. Nicholas Blake, inasmuch as he had been abducted and subsequently disappeared as a part of a systematic practice of the State authorities. The Commission went on to say that, with the documentary evidence and witnesses' statements, it had been proven that Guatemala violated the following articles: Right to Personal Liberty (Article 7), Right to Humane Treatment (Article 5), Right to Life (Article 4), Right to Judicial Protection (Article 25), Right to a Fair Trial (Article 8), Freedom of Expression (Article 13), Freedom of Movement and Residence (Article 22), all in conexion to Article 1(1) of the Convention. It also requested reparations for the damages caused, through payment of fair compensation to the victim's relatives and reimbursement of all the costs involved in determining Mr. Nicholas Blake's whereabouts. 33. On August 11, 1997, Guatemala submitted the brief containing its final arguments in which, on the basis of the testimonies of Richard R. Blake, Jr., Justo Victoriano Martínez-Morales, Ricardo Roberto, and Samuel Blake, and the State's recognition of the delay in the administration of justice, requested that a judgment be rendered on the merits, based on the Court's "prudent arbitration", since as such a judgment would facilitate the reparations proceedings in the case, which, for procedural reasons could not be opened on April 17, 1997. 34. On November 26, 1997, the Commission submitted a "complementary" brief to explain a point contained in the application and request in this case, to the effect that the Commission: ha[d] clearly and implicitly expressed in the application, and explicitly in the report [drawn up pursuant to] Article 50 and in the presentation of the case to the Court, its evidence, arguments and request with regard to the violation of Article 5, and ratifie[d] its claim that the acts set out in the application violated, inter alia, that article of the Convention. 35. On December 10, 1997, the State submitted the brief containing its observations on the Inter-American Commission's "complementary" brief, which pointed out that the subject of that brief had already been settled in operative paragraph 1 of the judgment on preliminary objections, and that, in accordance with that judgment, Guatemala "[did] not submit a reply to the arguments presented" and reiterated the contents of the brief containing its final pleadings. V PROVISIONAL MEASURES ADOPTED IN THIS CASE 36. In the brief of August 11, 1995, received at the Secretariat on that date, the Inter-American Commission submitted to the Court, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention and Articles 23 and 24 of the Rules of Procedure, a request for provisional measures in the Blake case with regard to the situation described as "a case of extreme urgency" in order to avoid irreparable damage to Mr. Justo Victoriano Martínez-Morales, a witness in the case, and his immediate relatives, Floridalma Rosalina López-Molina (wife), Víctor Hansel Morales-López