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l)
Fernando Coronado Franco. “Expert in Mexican criminal law and
international human rights law.” Expert witness proposed by the
representatives. He testified, inter alia, about “the role and the actions
of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Judiciary in the ‘cotton field’
case; the [alleged] main obstacles to access to justice and the
development of democratic criminal legislation as a result of the
constitutional amendments; the [supposed] impact of these
amendments on the laws of the states, including, the State of
Chihuahua; the impact of the absence of an accusatory system, and the
[alleged] absence of controls over the actions of the [P]ublic
[P]rosecutor’s [O]ffice in the Cotton Field case; the factual powers that
[supposedly] made it impossible to obtain a successful result in the
investigations in the Cotton Field case; the [alleged] absence of effective
mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights in the
Mexican State, and the [alleged] impact of this on both the victims and
those who were probably responsible.”
m)
Elena Azaola Garrido. “[E]xpert in psychology, gender perspective, rights
of the child and victimization processes.” Expert witness proposed by the
representatives. She testified, inter alia, about “the [supposed] process
of victimization of the next of kin of the victims of murder and
disappearance related to the Cotton Field case, the [alleged] impact on
their lives and the [presumed] harm caused” and about “the [alleged]
psychological damage caused to Mrs. Irma Monreal Jaime and her family
owing to the [presumed] disappearance and murder of Esmeralda
Herrera Monreal, linked to the [alleged] institutional violence they
encountered.”
n)
Marcela Patricia María Huaita Alegre. “[E]xpert on gender violence and
the right of women to access to justice.” Expert witness proposed by the
representatives. She testified, inter alia, about “the [alleged] problems
encountered by the families involved in the ‘cotton field’ case to have
access to justice, the [supposed] discriminatory conduct of the
authorities when dealing with cases of violence against women, the
[alleged] absence of gender policies in the provision and administration
of justice, the [supposed] absence of budgets with a gender perspective,
[and] the [alleged] absence of state and national strategies to
investigate paradigmatic cases of violence against women that could be
linked to sexual exploitation or trafficking.”
o)
Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos. “[E]xpert in women’s human rights,
gender perspective and public policies.” Expert witness proposed by the
representatives. She testified, inter alia, about “the [alleged] absence of
a gender policy in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, as well as in the rest of
the Mexican [S]tate; the [supposed] difficulties that women face to
obtain access to services provided by the State, the [supposedly]
gender-based discriminatory policies; the [alleged] failure to prevent
gender violence; the role of the legislature in the creation of gender
policies, the role of the legislature as a body that supervises institutional
actions, [and] the different types and methods of violence that women
have faced in Ciudad Juárez, specifically the [alleged] victims of
disappearance and murder, and their next of kin.”
p)
Clara Jusidman Rapoport. “Expert in public policies and gender.” Expert
witness proposed by the representatives. She testified, inter alia, about