43 61(72) On April 12, 1999, Mrs. Benítez de Goiburú asked the Court to issue an official letter to Brazil and Honduras requesting information on the dates when the asylum granted expired. 61(73) On March 9, 2000, Mrs. Benítez de Goiburú requested the First Criminal Tribunal (de Liquidación y Sentencia) to declare Alfredo Stroessner and Sabino Augusto Montanaro in contempt of court and to order preventive detention for the purpose of extradition. She also requested that their extradition should be ordered. On November 13, 2000, she asked that preventive detention should be decreed for Alfredo Stroessner and again requested that the court order his extradition and that of Sabino Augusto Montanaro. In July 2000, July 2001 and April 2002, she repeated her request that the respective extraditions should be ordered. In December 2000, she again asked the court to send an official letter to INTERPOL to ensure compliance with the preventive detention ordered. 61(74) On November 20, 2000, the Attorney General’s Office advised that prevention detention should be ordered for the accused, Sabino Augusto Montanaro and Alfredo Stroessner, because it was “an essential requirement for the viability of an extradition request, which had to be processed through the corresponding diplomatic channels.” 61(75) On December 7, 2000, having declared Alfredo Stroessner and Sabino Augusto Montanaro “in contempt of court” in May that year, the Third Criminal Tribunal (de Liquidación y Sentencia) decided to order their preventive detention “for the purpose of their extradition,” based on the definition of their procedural conduct; namely, having “effectively and appropriately instigated” the perpetration of crimes; in this case, murder and illegitimate deprivation of liberty. Among the findings on which this decision was based, the Court indicated, inter alia, that “State-organized terrorism is a type of crime that has occurred in numerous countries, particularly in Latin America” (infra para. 70). 61(76) On February 2, 2001, the Third Criminal Tribunal (de Liquidación y Sentencia) requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay to provide information on the extradition treaties that existed between Paraguay and Honduras and Brazil. It also requested information on the juridical and legal status of Alfredo Stroessner so as to determine the possibility of processing the extradition request. 61(77) On March 2, 2001, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Third Criminal Tribunal (de Liquidación y Sentencia): That it had not signed an extradition treaty with Honduras, although, based on the rules of international reciprocity and courtesy, it is possible to process an extradition request in the absence of a signed treaty. With regard to treaties with the Federative Republic of Brazil, an authenticated copy of the Treaty for the Extradition of Offenders between Paraguay and Brazil, signed by the two countries in 1922, is attached. Regarding the juridical and legal status of the Paraguayan citizen, Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, who is in exile in Brazil, this Ministry is aware that he has been granted asylum by the Federative Republic of Brazil. 61(78) On February 12, 2005, the Paraguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay to provide information on the extradition requests made in relation to Alfredo Stroessner and Sabino Montanaro.