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A)
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
24.
The victim’s representatives attached a copy of 106 documents, compiled into
49 appendices, to the reparations brief they submitted (supra paragraph 5).5
25.
Attached to its brief of comments on the reparations sought, the State
tendered copies of two presidential orders from Peru’s executive branch (infra
paragraph 31).6
26.
On April 6, 2001, Mrs. Ana Luiza Loureiro de Vasconcellos forwarded to the
Court a psychological report dated February 28, 2001, on the psychotherapy that Mr.
Cantoral Benavides had received (supra paragraph 9).7
27.
On October 1, 2001, the State sent the Court a copy of the “Report prepared
by the Committee to Study and Review Legislation Enacted Since April 5, 1992”
(supra paragraph 14).8
28.
On October 16, 2001, the victim’s representatives and the State submitted
data pertaining to the average salaries of office workers and professional biologists in
Peru, as the Court had requested (supra paragraph 16).9 On October 25, 2001, the
State submitted a brief containing additional information on this point (supra
paragraph 16).10
B) TESTIMONIAL AND EXPERT EVIDENCE
29.
At the public hearing held on September 6, 2001, the Court heard the
testimony of witnesses Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides, the victim in this case;
Gladys Benavides López, the victim’s mother; and Eloy Urso Cantoral Huamaní, the
victim’s uncle. The Court also received the expert reports prepared by psychologists
Oscar Maldonado Fernández and Ana Luiza Loureiro de Vasconcellos.
C) EVIDENCE ASSESSMENT
30.
In the instant case, the Court acknowledges the evidentiary value of those
documents that the parties duly submitted, that were neither challenged nor
disputed, and whose authenticity was not called into question.
5
Cf. Case file titled “Evidentiary appendices that the victim’s representatives attached to their
reparations brief,” which is with the Secretariat of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
6
Cf. Case file on the Cantoral Benavides Case submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights during the reparations phase, Volume I, at 151 to 153.
7
Cf. Case file on the
Rights during the reparations
8
Cf. Case file on the
Rights during the reparations
Cantoral Benavides Case submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human
phase, Volume I, at 129 to 131.
Cantoral Benavides Case submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human
phase, Volume II, at 292 a 302.
9
Cf. Case file on the Cantoral Benavides Case submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights during the reparations phase, Volume II, at 340 to 354.
10
Cf. Case file on the Cantoral Benavides Case submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights during the reparations phase, Volume II, at 361 to 365.