28. As stipulated in Article 4 of the Rules for the Operation of the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights8 (hereinafter “the Rules of the Assistance Fund”), the Secretariat is ordered to open an expenses file in order to record and account for all the expenditures that are made with resources from the Assistance Fund. 29. Lastly, the President recalls that, in accordance with Article 5 of the Rules of the Assistance Fund, the respondent State shall be informed of the expenditures made from this Fund so that it may submit observations, if it so wishes, by the established deadline. F. Final oral and written arguments and observations 30. The representative and the State may submit their respective final oral arguments on the preliminary objections and the eventual merits, reparations and costs to the Court, after the statements of the alleged victims and the expert opinions provided at the public hearing. As established in Article 51(8) of the Rules of Procedure, when the arguments of the representative and the State have concluded, the Inter-American Commission will present its final oral observations. 31. In accordance with Article 56 of the Rules of Procedure, the presumed victims or their representative, the State and the Commission may present their final written arguments and observations, respectively, regarding the preliminary objections and eventual merits, reparations and costs, within the time frame established in the twelfth operative paragraph of this Order. THEREFORE: THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, pursuant to Articles 24(1) and 25(2) of the Statue of the Court, Articles 4, 15(1), 26, 31(2), 35(1), 40(2), 41(1), 42, 45, 46, 50 to 56 and 60 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, and in exercise of his authority with regard to the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund, DECIDES: 1. To require, for the reasons indicated in this Order (supra considering paragraphs 18 to 20), in accordance with the principle of procedural economy and in exercise of the authority granted to him by Article 50(1) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, the following persons to provide their statements and expert opinions, as applicable, by affidavit: A) Alleged victims proposed by the representative: 1) César Alberto Mendoza, Claudio David Núñez, Lucas Matías Mendoza and Saúl Cristian Roldán Cajal, who will testify on: the alleged impact on the different aspects of their life of their life imprisonment for acts attributed to them when they were minors. In addition, they will testify on the characteristics of their detention in different domestic prisons; the alleged living conditions they faced in prison and how these supposedly affected the exercise of their rights; on their plans for the future after so many years of imprisonment and, lastly, on how their imprisonment                                                              8 Adopted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on February 4, 2010, and in force since June 1, 2010. 10   

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