5 16. On May 4, 1998, the Commission named the victim as a witness and specified the purpose of her testimony. 17. On May 7, 1998, the State presented its observations on the reparations briefs, and attached documentary evidence thereto. 18. On May 12, 1998, the President summoned the victim to testify during the public hearing that was scheduled to be held at the seat of the Court and informed the victim that the “sworn affidavits” and expert report offered in her brief of April 28, 1998 (supra 14) were to be submitted by no later than May 29, 1998. 19. On May 28, 1998, the victim submitted affidavits that Gisselle Elena Zambrano-Loayza, Paul Abelardo Zambrano-Loayza, Adelina Tamayo de Loayza, Julio Loayza-Sudario, Olga Adelina Loayza-Tamayo, Elizabeth Giovanna LoayzaTamayo and Carolina Loayza-Tamayo had made under oath and signed in the presence of a notary. She also presented a second power of attorney and a number of additional documents, invoking articles 43 and 44 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter “the Rules”) for her submissions. 20. On June 8, 1998, Peru presented its observations on the brief submitted by the victim on April 28 of that year, wherein it reiterated some issues raised in her reparations brief and objected to some of the documents. 21. On June 9, 1998, the State objected to the plan to take the victim’s testimony. At a meeting held prior to the public hearing the Court was to hold later that same day, the President heard arguments from the State, the victim and the Commission, then dismissed the State’s objection and decided that the Court would hear the testimony in question. 22. That same day, the Court held the public hearing on reparations. There appeared before the Court: the victim, María Elena Loayza-Tamayo, who also testified, and her representatives: Carolina Loayza-Tamayo and Ariel E. Dulitzky; for the Inter-American Commission: Oscar Luján-Fappiano, delegate, and Domingo E. Acevedo, delegate; for the State: Jennie Vizcarra-Alvizuri, alternate agent, Ana Reátegui-Napurí, advisor and Walter Palomino-Cabezas, advisor. 23. In the course of her testimony, the victim turned over a newspaper article titled "Niegan Billete a María Elena Loayza-Tamayo", published in the May 12, 1998 issue of the Lima newspaper "Ojo".