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same section where the articles were printed -the section titled “El País”using the same size and typeface used in the articles against which the suit
was brought, all at the expense of Mauricio Herrera Ulloa as the author of the
crimes committed; to order La Nación S.A. to break the existing link that
exists online at La Nación Digital between the surname Przedborski and the
articles that prompted the complaint, and that a link be established
connecting those articles to the operative part of the judgment. The court
also ordered the civil defendants to pay court costs of one thousand colones,
and the sum of three million eight hundred ten thousand colones in personal
expenses;
2.
The Order that the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”)
delivered on April 6, 2001, after conferring with all other judges on the Court, to the
following effect:
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 considering
paragraph 4 of this order.
2.
To convene 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 10:00 a.m., so that the Court may hear their points
of view on the facts and circumstances that motivated 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 submission of Mr. Féliz Przedborski Chawa, dated April 23, 2001, wherein
he asks the Court to “hear [his] attorneys,” Francisco Castillo González and Gonzalo
Facio Segrega, at the public hearing to be held in San José;
4.
The May 21, 2001 note from the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the
Secretariat), sent on instructions from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,
wherein it informed Mr. Féliz Przedborski Chawa that no provision in “the American
Convention on Human Rights, the Court’s Statutes or its Rules of Procedure allows
third parties interested in a matter that the Court has under consideration to
intervene in the matter” and that “since those conditions are not met, the Court
decide[d] that it cannot accede to your request”;
5.
The Commission’s submission of May 10, 2001, presented in response to the
President’s Order (supra, paragraph 2.1 under Having Seen:);
6.
The State’s May 16, 2001 submission, presented in response to the
President’s Order (supra, paragraph 2.1 under Having Seen:);
7.
The public hearing on the present request, held at the Inter-American Court
on May 22, 2001, wherein the following persons appeared:
For Costa Rica:
Farid Beirute, Attorney General of the Republic;