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217. Furthermore, the results of the proceedings must be publicized so that
Colombian society may know the truth about the facts.318
218. Lastly, the Court finds that the State must guarantee the safety of the next of
kin of Senator Cepeda Vargas and ensure that they do not have to relocate or leave
the country again, as a result of any possible threats, harassment or persecution
against them following notification of this judgment. In addition, under its general
obligations of guarantee contained in Article 1(1) of the Convention, the State must
conduct and conclude, with due diligence and within a reasonable time, the
investigations into the complaints of intimidation and threats filed by the next of kin at
the domestic level; the State has provided information about the said investigations
without indicating to which facts each one corresponds. Above all, it is essential that,
when conducting the said investigations, the corresponding authorities make every
effort to determine all the facts surrounding the threats and how they were expressed;
they must also try and determine whether there has been a pattern of threats against
the victims, or the group or entity to which they belong, as well as the object and
purpose of the threats, the individual or individuals behind them and, if applicable,
impose the penalties established by law.319
C.
MEASURES
OF
SATISFACTION, REHABILITATION
AND
GUARANTEES
OF
NON-
REPETITION
219. The Court will determine other measures that seek to repair the non-pecuniary
damage and that are not of a pecuniary nature, and will order measures of public
scope or repercussion.320
C.1
Satisfaction and non-repetition
a)
Publication of the judgment
220. The Commission requested the publication in a national newspaper of the
judgment that the Court will eventually hand down, and the State accepted this. As
ordered on other occasions,321 the Court finds that, as a measure of satisfaction, the
State must publish once in the official gazette and in another national newspaper
paragraphs 1 to 5, 13 to 23, 71 to 73, 85 to 87, 88, 100 to 102, 103, 114, 115, 122 to
126, 167, 175 to 177, 179, 180, 181, 194 to 196, 201, 202, 204, 209, 210, 216 to
218, 220, 223, 228, 233 and 235 of this judgment, including the headings of each
chapter and of the respective section – without the corresponding footnotes – and the
318
Cf. El Caracazo v. Venezuela. Merits. Judgment of November 11, 1999. Series C No. 58, para. 118; Case
of Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico, supra note 24, para. 334, and Case of Anzualdo Castro v. Peru, supra note 36, para.
183.
319
Cf. Carpio Nicolle v. Guatemala. Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
of July 6, 2009, para. 24.
320
Cf. The “Street Children” (Villagrán Morales et al.) v. Guatemala. Reparations and costs. Judgment of May
26, 2001. Series C No. 77, para. 84; Case of the Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, supra note 57, para. 255, and
Case of Dacosta Cadogan v. Barbados, supra note 312, para. 99.
321
Cf. Case of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers v. Peru, supra note 220, Case of the Dos Erres Massacre v.
Guatemala, supra note 57, para. 256, and Case of Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico, supra note 16, para. 350.
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