70 b) charges have been filed against thirteen accused persons, five of whom are members of the Army (supra note 96.82, 96.95, 96.115 and 96.119); c) the Attorney General’s Office has ordered nine preventive detention measures. Of these, the arrest warrants against Arnoldo Vergara Trespalacios, Francisco Gómez Vergaño and Miguel Enrique Vergara Salgado, alleged paramilitary, have not been effective; d) there are two first-instance convictions against seven individuals, namely the paramilitary Carlos Castaño, Julio Enrique Flórez, Luis Hernando Méndez Bedoya and José Vicente Gutiérrez Giraldo, Sergeants José Miller Ureña Díaz and Juan Carlos Gamarra Polo, and Lieutenant Colonel Lino Hernando Sánchez Prado (supra paras. 96.117 and 96.120). There is an appellate sentence that acquitted José Vicente Gutiérrez Giraldo and upheld the previous conviction against Carlos Castaño, Julio Flórez, Sergeants José Miller Ureña Díaz and Juan Carlos Gamarra Polo, and Lieutenant Colonel Lino Hernando Sánchez Prado (supra para. 96.122); e) of these seven convictions to sentences involving imprisonment, there are at least two arrest warrants pending execution, namely those issued against the paramilitary Carlos Castaño Gil and Luis Hernando Méndez Bedolla. However, according to information supplied by the State, the arrest warrant issued against Carlos Castaño Gil is suspended;128 and g) on August 3, 2005 the National Unit of Public Prosecutors’ Offices ordered that Salvatore Mancuso Gómez be formally joined to the proceeding. However, on August 4, 2005 said Unit stated that “given his status as a representative member of the ‘Autodefensas Unidas of Colombia’ in the ongoing peace process and the demobilization and reinsertion into civilian life of the men under his command, its suspension was ordered in accordance with subparagraph two of paragraph two of Article 3 of Law 782 of 2002. However, to ensure the appearance of Mancuso Gómez during the investigation, the High Commissioner for Peace [was] ask[ed] to report on his place of residence or location, for him […] to be heard during the investigative phase.” On August 3, 2005 an arrest warrant was also issued against José Pastor Gaitán Ávila, as the alleged co-perpetrator of the crimes of homicide in combination with the punishable acts of kidnapping, terrorism and conspiracy to commit a crime.129 Administrative-law proceedings a) Next of kin of Álvaro Tovar Muñoz and José Rolan Valencia 128 See report prepared by the Office of the Attorney General on April 6, 2005 (file with appendixes to the final pleadings submitted by the State, page 4986). 129 See August 3, 2005 decision by the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit; August 4, 2005 note, signed by a Specialized Prosecutor of the Office of the Attorney General, addressed to the High Commissioner for Peace (file with evidence to facilitate adjudication submitted by the representatives).

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