I REQUEST FOR INTERPRETATION AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT 1. On November 15, 2022, the Inter-American Court (hereinafter also “the Court”) issued the judgment in this case, of which the parties and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter also "the Commission") were notified on December 16, 2022. 2. On January 30, 2023 the victims' representatives 1 submitted a request for interpretation related to the scope of paragraphs 97 and 98 of the judgment regarding to the obligation to investigate. 3. On April 25, 2023, in accordance with Article 68(2) of the Rules of Procedure and following instructions from the Presidency of the Court, the Office of the Registrar transmitted the request for interpretation to the Republic of Paraguay (hereinafter “the State” or “the Paraguayan State”) and to the Inter-American Commission and granted them a deadline of May 26, 2023, to submit any written observations they deemed pertinent. On May 24, 2023, the State submitted its observations. For its part, the Commission did not submit any observations on the request for interpretation. II JURISDICTION 4. Article 67 of the American Convention establishes as follows: The judgment of the Court shall be final and not subject to appeal. In case of disagreement as to the meaning or scope of the judgment, the Court shall interpret it at the request of any of the parties, provided the request is made within ninety days from the date of notification of the judgment. 5. In accordance with this article, the Court is competent to interpret its judgments. To analyze a request for interpretation and resolve it as necessary, the Court must, if possible, have the same composition as when it handed down the corresponding judgment, in accordance with Article 68(3) of its Rules of Procedure. At this time, the Court is composed of the same judges that handed down the judgment of which interpretation is requested. 2 III ADMISSIBILITY 6. It falls to the Court to verify that the request presented by the representatives meets the requirements established in the norms applicable to a request for interpretation of judgment—that is, Article 67 of the Convention and Article 68 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court. Additionally, Article 31(3) of the Rules of Procedure establishes that “Judgments and orders of the Court may not be contested in any way.” 7. The Court notes that the representatives submitted their request for interpretation within the 90-day period established in Article 67 of the Convention. Indeed, the judgment was notified on December 16, 2022, and therefore, the request for interpretation—filed on January 30, 2023—is admissible as far as the deadline for its submission is concerned. With regard to the other requirements, the Inter-American Court will perform the The legal representation of the victims is exercised by Dante Ariel Leguizamón Morra, Hugo Valiente Rojas, Julia Cabello Alonso and Óscar Ayala Amarilla, attorneys of the Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos del Paraguay (CODEHUPY). 1 2 This judgment was deliberated and approved during the 160th regular sessions. 2