5 in their journeys from their place of residence in Chalatenango to the various centers where they have their medical appointments. Likewise, it has provided the medicines and/or the equipment recommended by the doctors who have attended them. At every “appointment scheduled for the Serrano Cruz family, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is present to ensure that no problems arise during their appointments,” and “in those cases in which a problem has arisen, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has resolved it (by obtaining doctors appointments, administrative assistance, and medicine)”; ii) “The State has institutions that provide psychological and psychiatric care with duly qualified personnel; however, given the insistence of the representatives of the Serrano Cruz family that this care be provided by a private institution, that is, the Department of Psychology of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, and given that the State finds that the specialized care they need can be provided by a private specialist, it has decided to hire the professional services of a psychologist with the professional capacity to provide the treatment needed by the Serrano Cruz family”; and (h) Regarding the reimbursement of costs and expenses to the Asociación ProBúsqueda, the State had expressed its willingness to make this payment as of late March 2006. Nevertheless, it was unable to make the payment until September 27, 2006, “owing to administrative reasons within the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda,” since it had not presented “the appropriate credential establishing the identity of the Association’s legal representative”; 6. The brief of February 27, 2007, and its appendixes, in which the representatives submitted observations on the State’s report of January 24, 2007 (supra Having seen paragraph 5). In summary, they indicated that: (a) Regarding the obligation to investigate and to undertake a genuine search for the victims, none of the investigative measures taken by the First Trial Court of Chalatenango has been taken at the initiative of that court or of the Office of the Prosecutor General (Fiscalía General) of the Republic. They also indicated that important investigative measures were never taken. The State “has not promoted the appropriate classification of the crime of forced disappearance, nor has it taken the necessary measures to ratify the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons”; (b) Regarding the establishment of a national tracing commission: i) The representatives recognized the positive results obtained by the Inter-institutional Tracing Commission. However, the State has again failed to report on whether this Commission complies with each of the parameters for its operations that the Court established in the Judgment, as required by the Court in its Order of September 22, 2006; ii) The Inter-institutional Tracing Commission “operates without any modification or adjustment to the parameters decided by the Court in relation to its independence, impartiality, capacity to demand information from public and private institutions, and the active participation of civil society organizations working in the relevant area”;

Seleccionar párrafo de destino3

Conectar a un párrafo
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Añadir a la tabla de contenidos