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and the State. In adopting urgent measures, this Presidency is only guaranteeing
that the Court is able to faithfully exercise its conventional mandate.8
NOW, THEREFORE:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF
HUMAN RIGHTS,
based on Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and in use of
the attributions conferred upon him by Article 25(4) of its Rules of Procedure, after
consulting with all judges in the Court,
DECIDES:
1.
To require the State of the
necessary measures to protect the
Charles and Berson Gelim, so that
Court of Human Rights decides to
effects.
Dominican Republic to adopt, forthwith, the
life and personal integrity of Rafaelito Pérez
the provisional measures the Inter-American
order, when appropriate, may take relevant
2.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to refrain from deporting or
expelling Rafaelito Pérez Charles from its territory.
3.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to allow the immediate return
of Berson Gelim to its territory, even making it possible for him to meet with his son.
4.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic, in its first report on the
provisional measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on
August 18, 2000, to also report on the urgent measures it has adopted in compliance
with this Decision, to inform the Court in its next session.
5.
To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit
remarks to the report of the State of the Dominican Republic within a period of six
weeks after being received.
Antônio A. Cançado Trindade
President
Manuel E. Ventura-Robles
Secretary
So ordered,
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Cf. James et al. Case, Provisional Measures, Decision of June 19, 1999. Series E No. 2; James et
al. Case, Provisional Measures, Decision of May 11,1999. Series E No. 2; James et al. Case, Provisional
Measures, Decision of July 22, 1998. Series E No.2; James et al. Case, Provisional Measures, Decision of
July 13, 1998. Series E No.2; James et al. Case, Provisional Measures, Decision of June 29, 1998. Series E
No. 2; and James et al. Case, Provisional Measures, Decision of May 27, 1998. Series E No.2.