INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ROSENDO CANTÚ ET AL. V. MEXICO JUDGMENT OF AUGUST 31, 2010 (Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs) In the case of Rosendo Cantú et al., the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”), composed of the following judges: Diego García Sayán, President; Leonardo A. Franco, Vice President; Manuel E. Ventura Robles, Judge; Margarette May Macaulay, Judge; Rhadys Abreu Blondet, Judge; Alberto Pérez Pérez, Judge; Eduardo Vio Grossi, Judge, and Alejandro Carlos Espinosa, Judge ad hoc; also present, Pablo Saavedra Alessandri, Secretary, and Emilia Segares Rodríguez, Deputy Secretary, pursuant to Articles 62(3) and 63(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the Convention” ) and Articles 30, 38(6), 56(2), 58, 59, and 61 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court1 (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), delivers this Judgment. 1 As stipulated in Article 79(1) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure that entered into force on June 1, 2010, “[c]ontentious cases submitted to the consideration of the Court before January 1, 2010, will continue to be processed in accordance with the preceding Rules of Procedure until the delivery of a judgment.” Consequently, the Court’s Rules of Procedure mentioned in this judgment correspond to the instrument approved by the Court at its forty-ninth regular session, held from November 16 to 25, 2000, partially amended at its eighty-second regular session held from January 19 to 31, 2009.