7 There appeared before the Court: For the Inter-American Commission: Isabel Madariaga, adviser Juan Pablo Albán, adviser Víctor H. Madrigal Borloz, adviser, and Lilly Ching, adviser. For the representatives of the alleged victims: Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director, CEJIL Soraya Long, Director, CEJIL Meso-America Gisela De León, lawyer, CEJIL Will Bloomfield, assistant, CEJIL, and Norwin Solano, lawyer, CENIDH. For the State of Nicaragua: José Antonio Tijerino Medrano, Agent María Cecilia Contreras Benavides, Deputy Agent, and Carlos José Hernández López, adviser. Witnesses proposed by the Commission and the representatives: Brooklyn Rivera Bryan, and Jorge Teytom Fedrick. Witnesses proposed by the representatives: John Alex Delio Bans, and Anicia Matamoros de Marly. Expert witness proposed by the representatives: María Dolores Álvarez Arzate. Expert witnesses proposed by the State: Carlos Antonio Hurtado Cabrera, and Marvin Saúl Castellón Torres. 38. On March 24, 2005, the University of Arizona’s Indigenous People Law and Policy Program presented an amicus curiae brief. 39. On March 31, 2005, the Secretariat reminded the State that, during the public hearing, the Court had requested it to present, by April 11, 2005, at the latest, a copy of the decision of the Regional Committee, in which, as the State had indicated during the hearing, YATAMA was notified that it did not comply with the requirements for the registration of its candidates for mayors, deputy mayors and councilors in the municipal elections of November 2000. It also reminded the parties that, during the said hearing, the Court had requested them to provide, by April 11, 2005, at the latest, the information that the Court needed to be able to determine the identity of the