25 recorded in this case file have been due to the numerous filings lodged by the defendants’ defense teams. They have not been due to the contemptuous absence of the named defendant; on the 82 contrary, they have been caused by the numerous defense requests for deferrals. 116. On July 11, 2006, the Venezuelan Ambassador in the Dominican Republic communicated with INTERPOL to request the arrest of Allan Brewer Carías, as he had been extended an 83 invitation to give a lecture in that country. On July 12, 2006, the Sixth Provisional Prosecutor sent INTERPOL a request for cooperation in searching for and locating Allan Brewer Carías, with a view to 84 placing him in preventive custody and subsequent extradition. They say that in response, INTERPOL requested information from the courts on the nature of the offense that had led Brewer Carías to be 85 charged with a common crime. On June 1, 2007, the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files concluded that the nature of the action against Allan Brewer Carías was predominantly political and, consequently, it recommended that the INTERPOL General Secretariat delete Allan Brewer Carías’s 86 record. By means of a clarification note of September 17, 2007, the Court of First Instance Sitting as Court of Control of the Caracas Metropolitan Area Judicial Circuit answered that Allan Brewer Carías was suspected of being the intellectual author of a frustrated attack on the President of the Republic, and that 87 accordingly the indictment was not for a political crime. The defense appealed and requested the 88 annulment of the note of clarification. That appeal was denied on October 29, 2007. 117. According to what has been published, Luisa Ortega Díaz, the Attorney General of the Republic and former Sixth Temporary Prosecutor, speaking of the investigation of Allan Brewer Carías, told the press: “When I led that investigation, after his indictment attorney BC was summoned to the preliminary hearing, and through his lawyers he sent a communication stating that he did not believe in Venezuelan justice; that Venezuelan justice offered the citizens, including himself, no guarantees; and that for that reason he had chosen to leave the country and would not return until there was a change of 89 government.” 118. On January 11, 2008, Allan Brewer Carías’s attorneys presented the Twenty-fifth 90 Temporary Judge with a request for dismissal, based on the Decree with Rank, Value and Force of Special Law of Amnesty, No. 5790, enacted on December 31, 2007, by President Hugo Chávez. That legislation, directed to “all those persons who, in confrontation with the established general order, and who as of this date are in their right and have been subjected to criminal proceedings, who have been tried and convicted,” includes, among the actions subject to amnesty, “the drafting of the Decree of the de 91 facto government of April (12,) 2002.” The request was denied on January 25, 2008, based on Allan Brewer Carías not having entered an appearance in the proceedings. The defense filed an appeal 82 Annex 44. Decision of the Twenty-fifth Court of July 20, 2007. Annex 55 to the petitioners’ submission received on January 3, 2008. 83 Annex 45. Annex 23 to the original petition received on January 24, 2007. 84 Annex 46. See: Response from the Twenty-fifth Court to INTERPOL. Annex 57 to the petitioners’ submission received on January 3, 2008. 85 Annex 47. Communication from INTERPOL of July 27, 2007. Annex 56 to the petitioners’ submission received on January 3, 2008. 86 Annex 48. Letter from INTERPOL of August 1, 2007. Annex to the petitioners’ submission of February 18, 2010. 87 Annex 46. Response from the Twenty-fifth Court to INTERPOL. Annex 57 to the petitioners’ submission received on January 3, 2008. 88 Annex 49. Appeal by the defense. Annex 58 to the petitioners’ submission received on January 3, 2008. 89 Annex 50. El País, interview of Luisa Ortega Díaz, January 8, 2008. Annex 71 to the petitioners’ submission received on November 30, 2009. 90 91 Annex 51. Request for dismissal. Annex 74 to the petitioners’ submission received on November 30, 2009. Annex 52. Official Gazette, special edition No. 5.870, December 31, 2007. Art. 1.A. Annex 70 to the petitioners’ submission received on November 30, 2009.