3 10. The State requested an extension in a communication of December 5, 2007, which the Commission granted on December 11, 2007. The petitioner requested that a hearing be held on the case in a communication of January 3, 2008. The State submitted observations filing by means of a communication of January 21, 2008, which was conveyed to the petitioner for information purposes on February 5, 2008. 11. The petitioner submitted comments on the State’s submission in a communication of February 27, 2008, which were forwarded to the State on March 11, 2008, with a one-month deadline for returning its comments. The State requested an extension on March 20, 2008, which was granted by the IACHR in a communication of April 1, 2008, with a deadline of April 17, 2008. The State submitted comments in a communication received on April 23, 2008, which were conveyed to the petitioner for information purposes on April 29, 2008. On June 13, 2008, the Commission received a filing from the petitioner containing comments on the State’s submission of April 23, 2008, and asking the Commission to grant him a public hearing to set out the grounds of his complaint. In a communication of September 23, 2008, the IACHR informed both the petitioner and the State that it had decided to convene a hearing for October 23, 2008. 12. The petitioner submitted a filing dated November 3, 2008, which was received on November 17, 2008, and which the Commission, by means of a communication dated February 9, 2009, forwarded to the State for it to return its comments within the following month. The State returned its comments in a communication of March 11, 2009, which was conveyed to the petitioner for his comments by means of a communication dated March 20, 2009. On May 5, 2009, the Commission received the petitioner’s comments, which were forwarded to the State by the IACHR in a communication of May 21, 2009, with a deadline of one month for returning its comments. The State returned its comments in a communication of June 24, 2009, which were forwarded to the petitioner by the IACHR in a communication of dated June 29, 2009. 13. The petitioner submitted comments on the State’s submission in a communication of August 19, 2009. In a communication of May 18, 2010, the Commission acknowledged receipt of the petitioner’s communications of December 9, 2009, and February 1, 2010. The petitioner lodged filings on August 1, September 20, and November 15, 2010, receipt of which was acknowledged by the IACHR on January 11, 2011. On April 19, 2011, the Commission received a submission from the petitioner, which was forwarded to the State for information purposes on June 2, 2011. The petitioner submitted additional filings on June 27 and July 12, 2011, which were forwarded to the State for its comments in a communication of August 12, 2011. On December 22, 2011, the IACHR received a communication from the petitioner, which was conveyed to the State for information purposes on February 6, 2012. III. POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES A.Position of the Petitioner 14. The petitioner alleges that on or about September 15, 1994, while Mr. Luis Antonio Galindo Cárdenas was working as a provisional judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Huánuco, he became aware through unofficial sources that his name had been mentioned in a statement given to the police by an alleged member of the subversive group Sendero Luminoso (“Shining Path”), accusing him of being a member of that organization through the Association of Democratic Lawyers. 15. The petitioner states that on October 14, 1994, Mr. Galindo Cárdenas reported to the offices of the Counterterrorism Command (hereinafter “JECOTE”) of the Huánuco National Police in order to clarify the situation, where he met with the head of that police unit. Later, at the Huánuco Military Barracks, he met with Army Colonel Eduardo Negrón Montestruque, commanding officer of the Military/Political Command and with the Provincial Criminal Prosecutor of Huánuco, Dr. Ricardo Robles y Coz, who informed him that there was a police investigation for the crime of terrorism in which his first given name and his surname appeared.