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2.
To request that the State submit a report to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, no
later than April 4, 2008, specifying all measures adopted to fully comply with the outstanding
reparations ordered by this Court, in accordance with the provisions of Considering paragraph eleven
and declarative paragraph two of the [...] Order.
3.
To request the representatives of the victims and their next of kin and the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights to submit their observations on the State’s report referred to in the
preceding operative paragraph, within a period of four and six weeks, respectively, from the date of
receipt of the report.
4.
To continue monitoring the outstanding operative paragraphs of the Judgment on preliminary
objections, merits, reparations, and costs of September 8, 2005.
[…]
3.
The briefs of January 21, April 7 and 14, 2008, June 22, September 14, October 13,
and November 20 and 23, 2009, whereby the Dominican Republic (hereinafter “the State” or
“the Dominican Republic”) reported on the status of compliance with the Judgment.
4.
The briefs of September 4, 2008, June 18, 2009, and January 21, 2010, whereby the
victims’ representatives (hereinafter “the representatives”) submitted their observations
regarding the monitoring of compliance with Judgment.
5.
The communications of August 27, 2008, July 21, 2009, and March 26, 2010, whereby
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the
Inter-American Commission”) submitted its observations on the monitoring of compliance
with Judgment.
6.
The Order of the then President of the Court of May 18, 2009, whereby she convened
the State, the representatives, and the Inter-American Commission to hold a private hearing
at the Court’s headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 8, 2009, concerning the
monitoring of compliance with the Judgment issued by the Court on September 8, 2005.
7.
The private hearing held on July 8, 2009 at the Court’s headquarters,1 so as to obtain
information from the State regarding compliance with the three outstanding operative
paragraphs and hear the representatives and the Commission’s observations.
8.
The communication of the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) of
July 30, 2009, whereby, following the instructions of the President of the Court, it requested
the State to submit a report on compliance and formulated specific questions in relation to
the private hearing held on July 8, 2009, and granted a non-extendable period up until
September 14, 2009 within which to submit the information requested.
9.
The communications of September 29 and October 13, 2009, whereby the State
requested extensions. The Secretariat’s communications of October 2 and October 16, 2009,
whereby it granted the State non-extendable periods up until October 13 and November 13,
2009, respectively.
10.
The communication of January 6, 2010, whereby the Commission requested an
extension to submit its observations, given that it did not have the representatives’ response.
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In conformity with Article 6(2) of the Rules of Procedure in effect at the time, the Court held a hearing with
a commission of Judges composed of: Cecilia Medina Quiroga, President; Manuel E. Ventura Robles and Margarette
May Macaulay. The following individuals appeared at the hearing, for the State: Mayerlyn Cordero, Minister Counsel
of the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic before the Organization of American States (OAS), and José
Marcos Iglesias Iñigo, Agent of the State before the Court; for the victims’ representatives: Francisco Quintana
(CEJIL), Sonia Pierre (MUDHA) and Roxana Altholz (International Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of
California), and for the Inter-American Commission: Lilly Ching Soto and Juan Pablo Albán.