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These next of kin have been submitted to a deep suffering and anguish in detriment
of their mental and moral integrity.
79(57) Dilcia Álvarez Ríos, the sister of Orlando Álvarez Ríos, has suffered as a
consequence of the death of her brother, with whom she lived at the time of the
facts and with who she had a close affective relationship and she suffered of anguish
and pain when she saw that her brother did not come home like he had promised.
On Monday September 19, 1995, she looked for her brother and made several
diligences to find him. She was informed that the victim was not detained in the
CORE VII, until she finally found her brother’s body in the morgue. She has suffered
in the search for justice she started. Likewise, Marja Ibeth Castro García, sister of
Marco Antonio Servellón García, has suffered due to the arrest conditions and
extrajudicial killing of her brother, when he was under the custody of state
authorities, and during the proceedings she carried out to present a claim for the
facts occurred.51
79(58) Ana Luisa Vargas Soto maintained an affectionate bond and was the partner
of Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez.52
79(59) The girl Zara Beatris Bustillo Rivera is the daughter of Rony Alexis
Betancourth Vásquez.
J)
Costs and Expenses
79(60) Casa Alianza has incurred in a series of expenses in the domestic jurisdiction.
The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Casa Alianza have incurred
in expenses related to the processing of the present case before the bodies of the
Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights, in representation of
some of the victims’ next of kin.53
VIII
VIOLATION OF ARTICLES 4(1), 5(1), 5(2), AND 5(5), 7(1), 7(2), 7(3), 7(4),
AND 7(5), AND 19, OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION, IN RELATION WITH
ARTICLE 1(1) OF THE SAME
(Right to Life, to Humane Treatment, to Personal Liberty,
Rights of the Child and Obligation to Respect Rights)
51
Cfr. statement of Dilcia Álvarez Ríos given before the Criminal Peace Court of Tegucigalpa, on
February 23, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 1102 and 1103);
and report of the Human Rights Inspector of the Office of Criminal Investigation, Nery Suyapa Osorio,
addressed to the Main Prosecutor of the Human Rights Prosecutors’ Office, Sonia Marlina Dubor de Flores,
on September 17, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 987 through
990).
52
Cfr. statement offered by Ana Luisa Vargas Soto before the First Criminal Court of First Instance
on March 07, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 867 through 870),
and statement given by Manases Betancourt Nuñes before the Second Criminal Peace Court on March 7,
1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 1137 through 1140).
53
Cfr. receipts of expenses of CEJIL (appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, volume II,
folios 2255 through 2259, and dossier of appendixes to the brief of final arguments presented by the
representatives, folios 2252 through 2254; and 2258 through 2260).