ARTICLE 5. The payment of the benefit entails the waiver of any right to compensation for damages based on the grounds provided for in this law, and is exclusive of any other benefit or compensation for the same events. 54. Law 26,679, promulgated on May 5, 2011, establishes: ARTICLE 1. The following text shall be incorporated as Article 142 ter of the Criminal Code: Article 142 ter: A prison sentence of TEN (10) to TWENTY-FIVE (25) years and absolute and perpetual disqualification from holding any public office and from private security tasks, on the public servant or the person or member of a group of persons who, acting with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of the State, in any way deprives of liberty one or more persons, when this action is followed by the lack of information or the refusal to recognize said deprivation of liberty or to report the person’s whereabouts. The sentence shall be life in prison if the victim dies or if the victim is a pregnant woman, a person under EIGHTEEN (18) years of age, a person over SEVENTY (70) years of age, or a person born during the forced disappearance of his or her mother. The penalties provided for in this article may be reduced by one-third of the maximum and by one-half of the minimum with respect to those perpetrators or participants who release the victim alive or who provide information that makes possible the victim’s effective appearance alive. 55. Article 280 of the Federal Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure, which regulates the extraordinary appeal (recurso extraordinario) before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation establishes: When the Supreme Court takes cognizance of an extraordinary appeal, the Court, at its own reasoned discretion and merely by invoking this provision, may deny the motion for leave to appeal, due to lack of sufficient grounds for federal appeal or when the issues raised prove to be insubstantial or lacking consequence. 56. On August 1, 2015, the Federal Civil and Commercial Code entered into force; its Article 2561, last paragraph, establishes: “Civil actions stemming from crimes against humanity are imprescriptible.” In addition, Article 2537, first paragraph, of that Code establishes: “The limitations periods running at the moment of the entry into force of a new law are governed by the previous law.” C. On the Julien-Grisonas family 57. According to the information available, Mario Roger Julien Cáceres was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on April 29, 1943, where he worked as a potter and graphic worker. He was also a student at the Escuela de Bellas Artes and a member of the Sindicato de Artes Gráficas (Graphic Arts Union). Due to his political activism in the FAU and the OPR 33, in August 1970 he was tried for “subversive activities” and incarcerated at the Puntas Carretas Prison in Montevideo, from which he escaped in September 1971 in the context of a massive escape of activists. In 1973 he obtained refugee status from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Argentine Republic, on political grounds.30 He worked in Buenos Aires as a dental technician.31 Mario Julien lost his life in the context of a military operation on September 26, 1976; to date his remains have been disappeared.32 Annex XX. File No. 2,951 (Julien Cáceres, Mario Roger) of the final report by CONADEP, p. 5. Annex 10 of the initial petition of November 11, 2005. 31 Annex XX. “Vaello, Orestes et al. re/aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty and aggravated homicide,” National Court for Federal Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 3, Secretariat No. 6, p. 86. Annex to the petitioner’s brief of August 3, 2012. 32 Secretariat for Human Rights for the Recent Past. Persons detained/disappeared due to responsibility and/or acquiescence of the State. File related to JULIEN CACERES, Mario Roger. Available at: https://www.gub.uy/secretaria-derechos-humanos-pasadoreciente/sites/secretaria-derechos-humanos-pasadoreciente/files/documentos/publicaciones/JULI%C3%89N%20C%C3%81CERES%2C%20Mario%20Roger%20ficha%20accesible.pdf; Annex XX. Brief by Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez filed November 19, 2012 in the context of Case No. 2,637/04 captioned “Vaello, Orestes et al. on aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty and aggravated homicide,” pp. 1-2. Annex to petitioner’s brief of November 21, 2012. 30