ii) the alleged obstacles encountered in this case and in other similar cases.
C) Expert witnesses proposed by the representatives
1) Ana Carcedo Cabañas, President of the Asociación Centro Feminista de
Información y Acción (CEFEMINA) and expert on women’s rights, who will render
an expert opinion on:
i) femicide in Guatemala, its causes and characteristics, and
ii) the steps taken by the State so far to address this phenomenon, and the
measures, that in her experience, should be adopted to prevent a repetition of
the events of this case.
2)
Rodolfo Kepfer Rodríguez, physician and surgeon, specialist in psychiatry,
who will render an expert opinion on:
i) The personal and family impact and the physical and psychological effects
suffered by family members of María Isabel Véliz Franco as a consequence of the
facts of this case and their alleged impunity, and
ii) the measures necessary to repair the damage caused.
3) José Mario Nájera Ochoa, physician and surgeon with extensive experience in
forensic medicine, who will render an expert opinion on:
i) the way in which forensic procedures are carried out in cases of violent deaths
of women in Guatemala and their main failings and limitations;
ii) the main alleged omissions in carrying out these procedures in the case of
María Isabel Véliz Franco, and
iii) the measures that the State should adopt to prevent the repetition of events
such as those that occurred in this case.
2.
To require the State to submit, if it so wishes, within the non-renewable term that
expires on April 16, 2013, any questions deemed pertinent through the Inter-American
Court to the alleged victims, the witness and the expert witnesses named in Operative
paragraph 1. The statements and expert opinions shall be submitted no later than April 29,
2013.
3.
To require the representatives to coordinate and make the necessary arrangements
so that, once the questions of the State have been received, the deponents proposed may
include the respective answers in their statements rendered by affidavit, under the terms of
Considering paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Order.
4.
To require the Secretariat of the Court, once the statements and expert opinions
required in Operative paragraph 1 have been received, to transmit them to the parties and
to the Commission so that, if the State deems it necessary, it may submit its observations
to those statements and expert opinions with its final written arguments.
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