55 However, there are other acts carried out by the State which, either directly or indirectly, relate to the actions taken to ascertain these situations. Pursuant to the reports of the Commission, the representatives, and the State, if it so corresponds, and the information on record. The Court notes that although in this context there are various references to Argentina, the present case was only presented in relation with Uruguay. Nonetheless, the representatives provided information concerning the investigations and claims initiated in Argentina in relation with the facts of the present case. 159 B.1 Actions concerning the Expiry Law 144. The Expiry Law was approved on December 22, 1986, by the Uruguayan Parliament.160 The Expiry Law provides as follows:                                                          159 These facts are: a) On August 25, 1976, María Teresa Laura Moreira filed a complaint with the Argentine police and on September 12, 1977, Mr. Juan Antonio García Iruretagoyena filed a complaint Court of Instruction denouncing said facts. b) On May 20, 1987, Nora Eva Gelman, who was detained at the same time as the Gelman García couple again denounced the kidnapping and illegal detention of María Claudia García Iruretagoyena and her husband c.) In October of 2005, the Argentine government announced that it would seek the extradition of military officers involved in the disappearance of María Claudia García Iruretogoyena and the suppression of the identity of María Macarena Gelman García d) On November 10, 2005, the Argentine government, through the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, filed a criminal complaint as part of the “Operation Condor Megacause” with Federal Court No. 7, Secretary No. 14. The complaint, titled “Videla Jorge Rafael, et al./Illegal Deprivation of Personal Liberty," investigates, among other things, the enforced disappearance of María Claudia García. e) In the complaint, the Secretariat of Human Rights identifies the members of the Uruguayan Armed Forces who participated in the events and requested the extradition of José Ricardo Arab Fernández, Juan Manuel Cordero Piacentini, José Nino Gavazzo Pereira, Ricardo José Medina Blanco, León Tabaré Pérez Alegre, Ernesto Avelino Ramas Pereira, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Buratti, Jorge Alberto Silveira Quesada, and Gilberto Valentín Vásquez f) Around May 2006, the Argentine government sent said requests to Uruguay. g)Subsequently, the Uruguayan authorities, in compliance with existing extradition treaty between Argentina and Uruguay, ordered the detention of the military officers José Ricardo Arab Fernández, Juan Manuel Cordero Piacentini, José Nino Gavazzo Pereira, Ricardo José Medina Blanco, León Tabaré Pérez Alegre, Ernesto Avelino Ramas Pereira, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Buratti, Jorge Alberto Silveira Quesada, AND Gilberto Valentín Vásquez. Said detentions were carried out beginning on May 5, 2006. h)On December 1, 2006, the Judge of the First Criminal Court of Uruguay, Juan Carlos Fernández Lecchini, ordered the extradition of Gilberto Valentín Vásquez, Ernesto Avelino Ramas Pereira, Jorge Alberto Silveira Quesada, Ricardo José Medina Blanco, Josí Nino Gavazzo Pereira, and José Ricardo Arab Fernández, under a series of conditions, including that they may be transferred to Argentina only after they complete their sentences resulting from the criminal proceedings instituted in Uruguay. i)Around November of 2008, and pursuant to several appeals, the Uruguayan Supreme Court partially confirmed the ruling of Judge Lecchini, granting the extradition of four military officers and pending the decision of two appeals. j)Manuel Cordero, identified as one of the perpetrators of the enforced disappearance of María Claudia García Iruretagoyena, had fled and was a fugitive in Brazil. He was extradited by Brazil to Argentina in the context of cause of action of Operation Condor and was prosecuted by the Argentinea justice system on February 9, 2010. 160 According to the Commisison in its application, when elections were called , held in November 1984, Julio María Sanguinetti was elected President of Uruguay during the November 1984 elections and was inagurated on March 1, 1985. Among the measures adopted was to reinstate the 1967 Constitution. He

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