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claims made before this Court, it was requested to hold the Venezuelan State
responsible for:
- Violation of the right to freedom of expression (Article 13 of the American
Convention)
- Violation to the judicial guarantees and judicial protection (Articles 8(1) and 25 of
the American Convention) in relation to the obligation to respect and guarantee
human rights, enshrined in Article 1(1) thereof.
- Violation (regarding José Antonio Monroy, Armando Amaya y Carlos Colmenares),
of the right to personal integrity enshrined in Article 5 of the American Convention,
in relation to the obligation to respect and guarantee human rights, enshrined in
Article 1(1) thereof.
And as a consequence, the Venezuelan State:
- Must adopt all the measures necessary to prevent actions by both state
agents and private citizens that could hamper the seeking, receiving, and
imparting of information by social communicators and support staff;
- Must adopt all the measures necessary to respond with due diligence
whenever there are acts of State agents as well as private individuals that
hamper the seeking, receiving, and imparting of information by social
communicators and support staff.;
- Must guarantee (regarding Luisiana Ríos, Luis Augusto Contreras Alvarado,
Eduardo Sapene Granier, Javier García, Isnardo Bravo, David Pérez Hansen, Wilmer
impede the search, access, expression and broadcasting of information or that affect the
right to property of the alleged victims in the case at hand;
2.
To adopt the measures necessary to deal with, promptly and effective, in protection
of the victims, the situations in which the officials and state agents or private individuals
caused an impairment to the personal integrity, that impede the search, access,
expression and broadcasting of information or that affect the right to property of the
victims in this case.
3.
To adopt the measures necessary to carry out a serious, thorough and complete
investigation to determine the responsible of the violations mentioned in this proceeding
and, once the alleged responsible are identified, to subject them to due process in order
to determine the legal responsibility.
4.
The result of such investigations must be made public and the Venezuelan State must
publicly recognize the international responsibility by means of the publication in a national
newspaper of whatever judgment this Tribunal may render;
5.
To issue a strong condemnation of the attacks to which the victims have been subjected in
the instant case , from its highest level and to adopt a conduct that promotes the respect for
freedom of expression, tolerance and dissident opinions and positions;
6.
To publish the most relevant parts of whatever judgment on merits the Court may hand
down, in a newspaper of national circulation during the time the Court deems appropriate and to
publish the entire text of the judgment in the official gazette of the State;
7.
To freely provide, through national health centers, the appropriate treatment
required by the victims of this case, prior statement of their consent to such effect, for
the necessary time, including the provision of medicines;
8.
To guarantee the equitable, fair and free access to information and news, without the
imposition of discretional and arbitrary conditions;
9.
To adopt the legislative measures and of whatever kind that are necessary to fully ensure
the exercise of the freedom of expression and information;
10.
To pay the victims identified in this case, the compensations that may correspond
for the pecuniary and moral damage caused to them; and
11.
To pay the legal costs and expenses incurred during the processing of this case, both at the
domestic level and at the Inter-American system for the protection of Human Rights”. The emphasis
is mine.