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ii)
make a public acknowledgment to Mr. Alfredo López Álvarez,
through a symbolic act, previously agreed on with the victim and his
representatives;
iii)
take the measures necessary to adapt the domestic legal system
to the norms of human rights that protect the right to personal liberty.
In this sense, modify the norms included in Articles 425 of the Criminal
Code and 433 of the Code of Criminal Procedures of the year 1984,
which are not compatible with the American Convention;
iv)
adopt the measures necessary so that the members of the Indian
communities that are imprisoned are not prohibited from using their
native language;
v)
give awareness courses to the prison guards so that they can
understand the culture of the members of the Indian groups imprisoned
through a court order, and
vi)
comply with all the satisfaction measures and non-repetition
guarantees, so that facts like those of the present case do not repeat
themselves.
205.
Arguments of the representatives:
a)
they requested the Court to order the State to:
i)
clarify the facts, investigate them in a serious, fast, impartial, and
effective manner and apply the corresponding judicial, administrative, or
disciplinary sanctions to those that committed the acts that constituted
the violations imputed to the State, and to all those that have permitted,
in a malicious or ommissive way, the impunity of this case to prevail;
ii)
publish the judgment of the Court in its totality in three
newspapers with the highest circulation in the country, and make a
public acknowledgement of its international responsibility for the
violations to the personal liberty and physical integrity of Mr. López
Álvarez, which produced effects on the victim and the community of
Triunfo de la Cruz and the different organizations involved in the defense
process of their territory, as a measure to restore the good name of the
alleged victim and his credibility as a defender of human rights;
iii)
adopt measures that improve the prison conditions in Honduras,
like those referring to the separation between convicted persons and
persons being processed;
iv)
take up, in a serious and decided manner, the formulation of a
short, medium, and long-term policy in penitentiary matters, following
the minimum rules of the United Nations for the treatment of inmates
and the criteria defined by the Inter-American Court regarding the
conditions of imprisonment, in order to advance in aspects such as:
modernization and adjustment of the penitentiary legal framework to the
international standards in this subject; improvement of the physical,
sanitary, and dietary conditions provided in the criminal centers, as well
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