observations.
5.
To summon the representatives, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to a public hearing to be held during the
Court’s 100th Regular Period of Sessions, at its seat in San José, Costa Rica, on September
3, 2013, from 15:00 hours, and on September 4, 2013, from 9:00, hours, to receive their
final oral arguments and final oral observations, respectively, regarding the preliminary
objection and possible merits, reparations and costs, as well as to receive the statements
of the following persons:
ALLEGED VICTIM (PROPOSED BY THE REPRESENTATIVES):
Allan Randolph Brewer Carías, who will testify on “[t]he [alleged] human rights
violations he [supposedly] suffered in the context of this case and on their [alleged]
consequences in his professional, personal and family life, and particularly on the
damage that those [alleged] violations have inflicted on his physical, mental and moral
integrity.”
WITNESSES
A) Proposed by the representatives
1. Leon Henrique Cottin, a Venezuelan lawyer who defended Mr. Brewer Carías in the
domestic criminal proceeding, who will testify on “the [alleged] violations of due
process [supposedly] suffered by professor Brewer Carías during said proceeding.”
B) Proposed by the State
2. Julián Isaías Rodríguez, Fiscal General of the Republic in 2002, who will testify on
“the events that [supposedly] prompted the Coup d État of April 11, 2002, and the
[alleged] drafting of the ‘Decree of Democratic Transition and National Unity.’”
3. Ángel Alberto Bellorín, a Venezuelan lawyer and teacher attached to the Vice
Ministry of Education of the Ministry of the Popular Power for Defense, who will
testify on “[t]he complaint filed before the Attorney General’s Office against Allan
Brewer Carías.”
4. Néstor Castellanos, First Prosecutor before the Court of Cassation and the
Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and formerly Fifth Judge
of First Instance in a Supervising role in the Judicial Circuit of the State of Zulia,
who will testify on “[t]he stages of the Venezuelan criminal proceeding and the
remedies available to persons for their defense.”
5. Mercedes Prieto, a lawyer and Director General of Legal Aid at the Attorney
General’s Office, appointed by the Attorney General of the Republic for the hearing
of the case against Mr. Allan Brewer Carías, who will testify on “[t]he Venezuelan
criminal proceeding against the lawyer Allan Brewer Carías [; t]he current status of
the case, and the domestic remedies applied before the Attorney General’s Office
and those that may be applied before the criminal Courts.”
EXPERT WITNESSES:
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