pay sixty million colones for the non-pecuniary damage caused by the
publications in the newspaper, La Nación, on May 19, 20 and 21 and
December 13, 1995; publication of the operative paragraphs of the judgment
in the same section of the newspaper, La Nación, that is, “El País”, and with
the same typeface as the articles that were the subject of the dispute, under
the responsibility of Mauricio Herrera Ulloa, as the person responsible for the
unlawful acts that were committed; that La Nación S.A. withdraw the link that
existed between the last name Przedborski and the disputed articles in La
Nación Digital on Internet, and that it establish a link between those articles
and the operative paragraphs of the judgment. Furthermore, the judgment
condemned the defendants to pay one thousand colones towards the
procedural costs and the sum of three million eight hundred and ten thousand
colones for personal costs.
2.
The order issued by the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”)
on April 6, 2001, in consultation with all the judges of the Court, in which he
decided:
1.
To grant the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State of
Costa Rica until May 12, 2001, to submit the information referred to in the fourth
considering paragraph of the [...] order.
2.
To summon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State of
Costa Rica to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights on May 22, 2001, at 10 a.m., so that the Court [might] hear their points
of view on the facts and circumstances that gave rise to the request for provisional
measures.
3.
To request the State, as an urgent measure, to abstain from executing any
action that would alter the statu quo of the matter until this public hearing [has been]
held and the Court is able to deliberate and decide on the admissibility of the provisional
measures requested by the Commission.
3.
The Commission’s brief of May 10, 2001, submitted in response to the
decisions in the order of the President (supra having seen 2(1)).
4.
The State’s brief of May 16, 2001, submitted in response to the decisions the
order of the President (supra having seen 2(1)).
5.
The public hearing on this request held at the seat of the Inter-American
Court on May 22, 2001, at which the following persons appeared:
For Costa Rica:
Farid Beirute, Prosecutor General
José Enrique Castro, from the Office of the Prosecutor General
Arnoldo Brenes, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship
Carmen Claramunt, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship
For the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
Pedro Nikken, delegate