- 101 amount granted for consequential damage, the Court does not find it in order to award an
additional amount to the victims under this heading.
332. Regarding the expenses incurred by the AJD, the Court notes that the Association presented
various probative elements to support the expenses associated with the hunger strike of May 2010.
However, the Court finds that these expenses were not directly related to the processing of the
litigation of this case at the domestic and the international levels. Regarding Ms. Flores Lanza’s
travel expenses for the trip she made to Spain, the representatives did not explain clearly how that
trip had been useful for the processing of this case. Furthermore, it notes that the representatives
provided receipts for per diems given to the four victims in this case, as well as for accommodation
and plane tickets to attend the hearings held by the Commission in March 2011 and March 2012.480
In this regard, they indicated that the victims had taken part in other meetings and activities in the
context of that trip and had therefore asked that the Court consider only 50% of the expenses
covered by the said vouchers. The Court observes that on the invoice corresponding to the
purchase of plane tickets,481 of the four tickets that this covers, only one corresponds to tickets in
the name of a victim in this case, and the representatives did not clarify whether the other three
tickets bore any relationship to this litigation. Consequently, the Court will take into account only
the cost of Mr. López Lone’s ticket. Regarding the expenses of the participation of Messrs. Chévez
and Barrios, the representatives indicated that they “do not have the corresponding vouchers;
nevertheless, [… they] asked that the Court consider that these were similar to the amount
assigned to Mr. López Lone] as they covered the same items.” Following the presentation of the
pleadings and motions brief, the representatives submitted invoices corresponding to the expenses
for seven affidavits,482 and the forwarding of documents, as well as for the payment for the
authentication of signatures and the forwarding of expert reports.483 They also presented vouchers
for travel expenses, per diems, and accommodation related to participation in the public hearing
held in this case.484 Based on the foregoing, the Court notes that the AJD presented vouchers for
costs and expenses amounting to US$12,057.06.
333. Regarding the expenses incurred by CEJIL, the Court determines that it has provided evidence
corresponding to the expenses to attend the hearing on admissibility before the Inter-American
480
Cf. Receipts for travel expenses dated March 16, 2011, for each victim to attend the hearing held at the Inter-American
Commission in March 2011 (evidence file, folios 5900 to 5903); invoices for accommodation at The Embassy Inn from March
21 to 27, 2011 (evidence file, folios 5904 and 5905); receipt from American Airlines dated March 8, 2011 (evidence file, folio
5906); invoice for accommodation at Carlyle Suites, Washington D.C. from March 21 to 27, 2012 (evidence file, folio 5909),
and receipts for travel expenses of Adán Guillermo López Lone and Tirza del Carmen Flores Lanza dated March 20, 2012
(evidence file, folio 5911).
481
Cf. Invoice for the purchase of plane tickets in the name of Rubenia Galeano, Paula Velasquez, Adriana Orocu and
Guillermo López Lone of March 3, 2012 (evidence file, folio 5908).
482
Cf. Invoice from Asesoría Legal Integrada dated January 8, 2015, for four affidavits and payment for forwarding them
on the same date (merits file, folios 1688 and 1689); receipt for payment of three notarized statements dated January 7,
2014 (merits file, folio 1692). When calculating the dollar value of the amounts presented in lempiras, the Court used the
exchange rate in force at the date of the invoice according to the table on the average cost of the dollar prepared by the
Banco Central of Honduras.
483
Cf. Invoice for sending documents by Fedex dated January 9, 2015 (merits file, folio 1693); receipt for payment of
authentication of Julio Escoto’s signature (merits file, folio 1695), and UPS payment of January 9 and 10, 2015 (merits file,
folios 1696 to 1698).
484
The representatives presented the invoice corresponding to the plane tickets for Luis Chévez and Lidia Galindo, Oduemi
Arias, Tirza Flores, Adán López and Ramón Barrios (merits file, folios 1701 and 1702). They also presented the vouchers for
payment of the airport and exit taxes (merits file, folios 1703 to 1711); invoice for accommodation at the Hotel Casa
Cambranes (merits file, folio 1712), vouchers for payment of per diems to Oduemi Arias for six days to attend the public
hearing; to Guillermo López Lone for nine days; to Tirza Flores Lanza for nine days; to Ramón Barrios for five days; to Luis
Alonso Chévez for five days, and to Lidia Galindo for five days (merits file, folios 1713 to 1718).