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presented in the brief of September 30, 1995. The amounts sought were as follows:
US$173,058.35 for the next of kin of William Zenteno-Escobar, US$148,136.17 for the next
of kin of Mr Edgar Zenteno-Escobar, and US$166,541.53 for the next of kin of Mr. Víctor
Neira-Alegría. The Commission estimated Mr. Neira-Alegría's age at 31 for its calculation of
his “loss of earnings.”
23.
On January 26, 1996, the Court held a public hearing attended by,
for the Republic of Peru:
Jorge Hawie-Soret, Agent
Julio Vega-Eráusquin, Assistant;
for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
Oscar Luján-Fappiano, Delegate
Domingo E. Acevedo, Attorney
Juan E. Méndez, Assistant.
24.
At the public hearing on reparations the Government produced the following
documentary evidence: a document issued by the National Prisons Institute, stating the
date on which Mr. Víctor Neira-Alegría, Mr. Edgar-Zenteno Escobar and Mr. William-Zenteno
Escobar entered the “El Frontón” correctional institution; legal material on the offenses of
“ridicule and insolence”; documents of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, documentation
from the Ministry of Labor and Social Promotion on the calculation of “loss of earnings.” The
Government also supplied copies of some judgments handed down in Peru in connection
with State responsibility stemming from the commission of criminal acts.
25.
The delegate of the Inter-American Commission, for his part, submitted an article
from a Peruvian daily newspaper on the compensation of the relatives of the victims of the
“La Cantuta massacre.”
26.
In connection with costs and expenses [daño emergente], the Government also
produced a letter of January 23, 1996 to the Government's agent from Monsignor Juan Luis
Martín-Bisson, Bishop and President of the Episcopal Social Welfare Commission [Comisión
Episcopal de Acción Social], stating that the Episcopal Commission's professional services in
the Neira Alegría et al. case had been provided free of charge.
27.
On that subject, the Commission claimed at the public hearing that the Episcopal
Social Welfare Commission was one of the Peruvian nongovernmental human rights
organizations that had originally participated in the case, but that legal services “were
subsequently provided by organizations such as CEAPAZ and FEDEPAZ.”
28.
On March 27, 1996, the Commission submitted to the Court a brief containing
information on the case supplied by the victims' representatives. The information concerned
the calculation of “loss of earnings” for Víctor Neira-Alegría and indicated that the
whereabouts of his next of kin were unknown.
29.
On April 29, 1996, the Secretariat of the Court wrote formally to the Inter-American
Commission requesting the presentation of certain documents containing information on:
the list of beneficiaries of Costs and Expenses [daño emergente], “loss of earnings” and