41 b) the hearing scheduled for February 9, 2001, was postponed by the Juzgado de la Tercera Sala de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) “due to unavoidable reasons” to February 16, 2001, on which date witness Francisco das Chagas-Melo was taken testimony;62 c) Antônio Vitorino de Sousa-Rufino, Maria Gorete-Silva, Maria Claudenice Silva-Porfírio and Marcelo Messias-Barros testified on March 13 and 14, 2001, and Idelson Pinto-Batista and João Arnóbio B. de Mesquita testified on May 15 and 21, 2002;63 d) At the hearing held on November 29, 2001, the defense argued that the hearing should be suspended until the mother of the alleged victim was heard, and, as there was no objection from the Attorney General’s Office, the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) decided to postpone the hearing, ordered that Mrs. Albertina VianaLopes be heard and scheduled a new hearing for March 8, 2002. On March 7, 2002, the Chief of the Clerk’s Office for said Trial Court informed that witness subpoenas for the hearing scheduled for the following day were missing. As a result, prosecution witnesses Albertina Viana-Lopes and Irene Ximenes-Lopes-Miranda and defense witnesses José Vilson Barreto-Araújo, Olinda Alexandre de Sousa, Ângela Maria Carvalho- Parente and Maria Verónica Miranda-Bezerra were scheduled to testify on April 12, 2002,64 and Aguiar and Elias Gomes-Coimbra before the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on October 11, 2000 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 1879 to 1892). 62 Cf. certificate from the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral), dated February 9, 2001 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, page 1947); and statement made by Francisco das Chagas-Melo before the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on February 16, 2001 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 1949 to 1952). 63 Cf. statements made by Antônio Vitorino de Sousa-Rufino, Maria Gorete-Silva and Maria Claudenice Silva-Porfírio before the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on March 14, 2001 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 1962 to 1966); statement made by Marcelo Mesias-Barros before the Segunda Sala Criminal del Juzgado de Fortaleza (Second Criminal Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Fortaleza) on March 13, 2001 ((record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 1980 to 1982); statement made by Idelson Pinto Batista before the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on May 15, 2002 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 2094 to 2096); and statement made by João Arnóbio B. de Mesquita before the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on May 21, 2002 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 2113 to 2116). 64 Cf. order issued by the Jueza Auxiliar de la Séptima Zona Judicial (Deputy Judge of the Seventh Judicial Region) on June 6, 2001 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, page 1986); record of the hearing held by the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on November 29, 2001 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 1993 and 1994); order entered by the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on March 7, 2002 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, page 2024); statement made by Albertina Viana-Lopes before the Juzgado Vinculado de Varjota (Trial Court in and for Varjota) on April 10, 2002 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 2036 to 2038); and statements made by Irene Ximenes-Lopes-Miranda, José Vilson Barreto-Araújo, Olinda Alexandre de Sousa, Ângela Maria Carvalho-Parente and Maria Verónica Miranda-Bezerra before the Tercera Sala del Juzgado de Sobral (Third Chamber of the Trial Court in and for Sobral) on April 12, 2002 (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix I, volume II, pages 2044 to 2056).