reasonable time. Taking into consideration the above and the information available to
this Court on the current status of the process, the Court orders the State, within a
reasonable period of time, to effectively advance to the trial stage of the ongoing criminal
proceedings in the domestic courts and, as appropriate, punish those responsible for the
acts of torture to which the victim in this case was subjected.
C. Measures of satisfaction requested
132. The Commission requested, in general terms, comprehensive redress for the
human rights violations declared in the Merits Report. It also argued that the State
should adopt measures of satisfaction, without specifying what those measures should
be.
133. The representative did not present specific arguments in this regard.
134. The State did not present specific arguments in this regard.
135. As it has done in other cases, 215 the Court orders the State to publish, within six
months of notification of this judgment: a) the official summary of this judgment
prepared by the Court, once, in the Official Gazette, in a legible and adequate font size;
b) the official summary of this judgment prepared by the Court, once, in a newspaper
with wide national circulation in a legible and adequate font size; c) the full text of this
judgment, available for one year on the official websites of the Judiciary and the Ministry
of the Interior, with public access via links on the websites’ home pages; and d) to
disseminate the judgment on the official social media accounts of the Judiciary and the
Ministry of the Interior. The publications should mention that the Inter-American Court
has delivered a judgment in the instant case declaring the State’s international
responsibility, and include a link to the page where the full text of the judgment can be
accessed directly. Each institution shall make this publication at least five times, during
normal working hours, and the content shall remain published on their social media
profiles.
136. The State shall immediately inform this Court once it has made each of the
publications ordered, regardless of the one-year term for submitting its first report as
ordered in the ninth operative paragraph of this judgment.
D. Guarantees of non-repetition
137. The Commission requested that training programs be designed and implemented
for security forces, judges and prosecutors on inter-American standards governing the
prohibition of acts of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, to prevent
similar events from occurring in the future. It also asked that, in designing the program,
the standards set forth in the Istanbul Protocol be used as a reference.
138. The representative did not present specific arguments in this regard.
139. The State argued that the security forces, judges and prosecutors were engaged
in “regular and daily” training of their officials, “specifically regarding the application of
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of December 3, 2001. Series
C No. 88, para. 79, and Case of Olivera Fuentes v. Peru, supra, para. 145.
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