filed a preliminary objection (infra para. 20) and asked the Court to “reject the arguments” regarding the alleged international responsibility of the State for the alleged violation of the rights enshrined in Articles “8(2) (c), 8(2) (h), 9, and 25(1) of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof, as well as Article 2 of that instrument. As to the reparations, Argentina objected both to those requested by the Commission, and those requested by the representatives. The State also indicated that it objected to increasing the number of beneficiaries of the pecuniary reparations requested by the representatives. The State appointed the Minister Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, General Director of Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship as its Agent, and, as alternate agents, it appointed Mr. Alberto Javier Salgado, Director of International Legal Affairs at the Department of Human Rights, Ms. Andrea Gualde, Director of International Affairs on Human Rights of the Secretariat for Human Rights, and Ambassador Juan José Arcuri, Ambassador of Argentina to the Republic of Costa Rica. 12. On March 28, 2012 and March 29, 2012, the Inter-American Commission and the representatives submitted, respectively, their observations to the preliminary objection raised by the State (supra para. 10). 13. On June 4, 2012, the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) issued an Order7, in which he declared admissible the request filed by the Inter-American defenders, in their role as representatives of the alleged victim, to access the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund (supra para. 9) and made other determinations in that regard. The President also ruled on the objection filed by the State against the expert witness offered by the Commission, and ordered that his testimony, as well as that of the other expert witness, be rendered at the public hearing. Moreover, the President ordered that sworn statements be rendered before a notary public (affidavits) by the alleged victim and one expert witness; said statements were submitted by the representatives on June 19, 2012. In that Order, the President also summoned the parties and the Commission to a public hearing (infra para. 14). 14. On June 8, 2012, the State filed a motion against three points of the Order of the President, of June 4, 2012 (supra para. 12). On June 12, 2012, the Commission submitted its observations on the motion presented by the State. The representatives did not submit any observations. On June 18, 2012, the Court issued an Order in which it dismissed the motion filed by the State and, therefore, upheld the President’s Order of June 4, 2012.8 15. The public hearing took place on June 20 and 21, 2012, during the 95th Regular Period of Sessions, held at the seat of the Court.9 During the public hearing, testimony from two expert witnesses was heard, as well as the observations and final oral arguments of the Inter-American Commission, the representatives and the State. 7 Cf. Case of Mohamed v. Argentina. Order of the President of the Court of June 4, 2012, available at the web site of the Court at the following link: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/mohamed_04_06_12.pdf. 8 Cf. Case of Mohamed v. Argentina. Order of the President of the Court of June 4, 2012, available at: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/mohamed_18_06_12.pdf 9 The following individuals appeared at the hearing: a) for the Inter-American Commission: Rosa María Ortíz, Commissioner, and Silvia Serrano Guzmán, advisor to the Secretariat; b) for the representatives: Gustavo L. Vitale and Marcelo Torres Bóveda, Inter-American defenders, and Daniel García Cáneva, Assistant to the Inter-American Defenders, and c) for the State: Javier Salgado, Agent, Director of the Department of International Legal Affairs related to Human Rights, Argentine Foreign Ministry; María Cecilia López Uhalde, Department of International Legal Affairs related to Human Rights, Argentine Foreign Ministry; Yanina Berra Rocca, General Legal Counsel, Argentine Foreign Ministry; María Eugenia Carbone, Coordinator of International Affairs of the National Secretariat for Human Rights, and Ramiro Badia, Advisor of the National Secretariat for Human Rights. 7