7 Convention since September 5, 1984, at which time it also accepted the obligatory jurisdiction of the Court. IV PROCEEDING BEFORE THE COMMISSION 5. On May 13, 1997 the Commission received an application filed by María del Carmen Verdú and Daniel A. Stragá, representing Víctor David Bulacio and Graciela Rosa Scavone, parents of the alleged victim, co-sponsored by the Coordinadora contra la Represión Policial e Institucional (hereinafter “CORREPI”), the Center for Justice and International Peace (hereinafter “CEJIL”) and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (hereinafter the “CELS”) (hereinafter “the applicants”). 6. On May 16, 1997 the Commission forwarded to the State the relevant parts of the application and asked the State to provide the appropriate information within 90 days. The State requested three consecutive extensions, which were granted by the Commission. On December 3, 1997 the State requested that the application be declared inadmissible, due to non-exhaustion of domestic remedies and that none of the exceptions set forth in article 46(2) of the Convention had been demonstrated. The applicants replied on February 26, 1998. 7. On May 5, 1998 the Commission adopted Admissibility Report No. 29/98, during its 99th Special Session, and made itself available to the parties to attain a friendly settlement. 8. On December 18, 1998 the applicants informed the Commission that the process of negotiating a friendly settlement with the State had ended, and they requested that it continue to process the case. 9. Between March, 1999 and September, 2000 the State and the applicants sent a number of briefs regarding exhaustion of domestic remedies, as well as important complementary information pertaining to the case. 10. On October 3, 2000 the Commission adopted Report No. 72/00, during its 108th Regular Session. In said report, it concluded that Argentina violated the rights to life (Article 4), to humane treatment (Article 5), to personal liberty (Article 7), to fair trial (Article 8), of the child (Article 19), and to judicial protection (Article 25), as well as the obligation to respect human rights (Article 1), enshrined in the American Convention, to the detriment of minor Walter David Bulacio. The operative paragraphs of said report set forth that the State must: 1. Adopt such measures as may be necessary for the facts stated above not to go unpunished, including a complete, impartial and effective investigation to establish the circumstances of the detention, injuries and death of Walter David Bulacio, and punishment of those responsible in accordance with Argentine legislation. 2. Adopt such measures as may be necessary for the next of kin of Walter David Bulacio, Víctor David Bulacio and Graciela Scavone de Bulacio, to receive adequate and timely reparation for the violations [...] found. The Commission decides to forward [the] report to the State and to grant it two months time to comply with the recommendations made. Said term will begin on the date when the [...] report is forwarded to the State, and the latter may not publish it. The

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