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national universities for its subsequent promotion and projection. The State must
organize these acts within two years of notification of this judgment.
230. Notwithstanding the above, the Court appreciates the fact that the State has
initiated the pertinent steps to name a school in the district of a Bogotá after the
Senator.
d)
Creation of the “Manuel Cepeda Vargas” grant for journalists of
the weekly publication, Voz
231. Given the victim’s activities in the field of journalism throughout his career, the
representatives requested the creation of a grant bearing his name in order to recover
and to preserve his memory, and to enhance the capacities of the journalists working
with the weekly publication Voz and, thus, to restitute in part the harm caused to the
journalism community to which Senator Cepeda belonged and which he led. The grant
would be awarded each year to a journalist chosen by the board of directors of Voz,
and would finance one year of first-level or graduate university studies in a Colombian
public university chosen by the beneficiary of the grant.
232. The State rejected this measure requested by the representatives because it
was already working on measures for the recovery of the victim’s memory and
considered that they were sufficient in this regard.
233. Based on the above and as decided in this judgment, the Court requires that the
State award a one-time grant bearing the name of Manuel Cepeda Vargas, to be
administered by the Manuel Cepeda Vargas Foundation. The grant will cover the total
cost, including living expenses, of a degree course in communication sciences or
journalism in a Colombian public university chosen by the beneficiary. The grant will be
awarded and implemented by a competition on merits, using a procedure established
by the Foundation that respects objective criteria.
C.2
Rehabilitation
Medical and psychological care for the victims
234. The Commission asked that the Court order the State to adopt measures of
psychological and medical rehabilitation for the victim’s next of kin. The State accepted
the measures of rehabilitation requested by the Commission for the next of kin of the
victim, which will include measures of psychological and medical rehabilitation.
235. The Court finds, as it has in other cases,325 that it must order a measure of
reparation that provides appropriate care for the mental and moral sufferings that the
victims endured owing to the violations declared in this judgment. Consequently, in
order to help repair this harm, the Court decides that the State has the obligation to
provide, free of charge and immediately, the medical and psychological treatment
required by Senator Cepeda’s next of kin, following their informed consent and for the
time necessary, including the provision of medication. The psychological treatment
must be provided by State institutions and personnel specialized in the care of victims
325
Cf. Barrios Altos v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of November 30, 2001. Series C No. 87, para.
45; Case of the Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, supra note 57, para. 269, and Case of Anzualdo Castro v. Peru,
supra note 36, para. 203.
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