45 punished, and for the State to avoid delays in the processing of the criminal case “through purely delay tactics by the defense counsel of the accused,” to order that the evidence offered by the Bulacio family over these 12 years be submitted, and to instruct the Public Prosecutor’s Office to “play a truly leading part” in the investigation; b) the State should take such actions and legal steps as necessary for the detention places to be adequate and to have due permanent control. In this regard, they pointed out that minors are held at the police stations when they are detained, in places where adult detainees are also held. So as to ensure physical safety and decent lodging conditions in cases of detention of children and adolescents, it is necessary to forbid that they be held together with adults, and it should be specified that the detention centers be especially designed for this purpose, with permanent control by especially trained staff; c) the State must order such actions and legal steps as may be necessary for the Argentine legal system to explicitly regulate causes for detention of children, pursuant to the terms of the American Convention, and establish a maximum period of detention and the respective notice to the next of kin and to a competent judge; and d) the State must carry out “acts or works with public repercussion or scope such that they have [the] effect of preserving remembrance of the victims, reestablishment of their dignity, consolation to their relatives, and transmission of an official message [...] for nonrecidivism of [said violations of human rights].” For this, it is necessary to promote and fund a documentary on the case of David Bulacio, by means of a public contest, with a jury constituted with consent by the next of kin of the victim, and to ensure its dissemination in the movie theaters and on television. It is also necessary for the international responsibility of the State for the illegal detention, torture, and death of Walter David Bulacio to be publicly and massively recognized, as well as its responsibility for not having investigated, for over ten years, what happened, and for not having identified those responsible. Acknowledgment of this responsibility must be published in the most important printed media of the country; and the State must use all effective means within its power for said symbolic measures to generate interest and involvement of the media. Arguments of the Commission 107. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to make non-pecuniary reparations, as follows: a) the State must adopt such measures as may be necessary to give legal effect to the obligation to investigate and effectively punish the authors of the illegal detention, torture, and death of Walter David Bulacio. In this regard, the State must ensure that extinguishment of the criminal case will be avoided, as well as unnecessary delays in its processing; it must also order that the evidence offered by the attorneys for the Bulacio family throughout the 10 years of the

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