Order of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights∗
of August 5, 2008
Case of Servellón García et al. v. Honduras
(Monitoring Compliance with Judgment)
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The Judgment on the merits, reparations and legal costs (hereinafter, the
"Judgment") delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the
"Court", "the Inter-American Court” or the “Tribunal”) on September 21, 2006.
2.
The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding Monitoring
Compliance with the Judgment, of January 29, 2008, which declared that:
1.
Pursuant to the information contained in Having Seen Clauses 34 to
37 of […] Order, the State has fully complied with the payment of the
amounts awarded as compensation for the pecuniary and non-pecuniary
damages and costs and expenses (operative paragraphs fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen and eighteen of the Judgment).
2.
That pursuant to the information contained in [...] Order, the State
has complied with the following operative paragraphs of the Judgment:
a)
to publish, once, in a newspaper of national circulation, the chapter related to
the proven facts in the Judgment and the operative paragraphs of the same, pursuant to
Having Seen Clauses 10 to 13 of […] Order (operative paragraph nine of the judgment;)
b)
to name a street or park, in the city of Tegucigalpa, in memory of the victims,
pursuant to Having Seen Clauses 18 to 21 of […] Judgment (operative paragraph eleven
of the Judgment;) and
c)
to issue a postal stamp in allusion to the protection owed by the State and
society to children and youngsters in risky situations, pursuant to Having Seen Clauses
26 to 29 of […] Order (operative paragraph thirteen of the Judgment.)
3.
That the supervision proceeding shall be kept open to track the compliance with the orders
pending fulfillment in the […] case, to wit:
a)
to carry out all actions necessary to identify, prosecute and, as the case may
be, punish all the perpetrators and instigators of the violations committed in detriment
of the victims and to remove all obstacles and mechanisms of fact and of law that have
maintained impunity in the instant case, Having Seen Clauses 6 to 9 of […] Order
(operative paragraph eight of the Judgment;)
b)
to publish, once, in the Official Gazette the chapter regarding the proven facts
of the Judgment, without footnotes and the operative paragraphs of the same, pursuant
to Having Seen Clauses 10 to 13 of […] Order (operative paragraph nine of the
Judgment);
∗
Judge Diego García-Sayán, due to reasons of forced majeure, was not able to take part in the deliberation
and signature of this Order.