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presented by the Public Prosecutors’ Office against the ruling of February 9, 2005]
with the motives and grounds ordered by the due process.”50 (supra para. 79(47))
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79(51) Up to the date of the present Judgment the criminal trial is still in process, the
Court has decided to close the preliminary proceedings and forward the procedures
to full trial, decision that is still pending an appeal (supra paras. 79(49) and 79(50)).
Likewise, the Court has issued arrest warrants against three of the accused, Messrs.
Víctor Hugo Vivas Lozano, Roxana Sierra Ramírez, and José Alberto Alfaro Martínez.
Regarding the first two, said orders have not been effective. In what refers to Mr.
José Alberto Alfaro Martínez, who had been in preventive detention, on the date of
the present Judgment, he has been released since the case was dismissed in his
favor (supra para. 79(49)).
I)
On the victims’ next of kin
79(52) The next of kin of Marco Antonio Servellón García are Reyes Servellón Santos,
father, who passed away after the facts; Bricelda Aide García Lobo, mother; Marja
Ibeth Castro García, sister; Pablo Servellón García, brother, and Héctor Vicente
Castro García, brother.
79(53) The next of kin of Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez are Manases Betancourth
Núñez, father; Hilda Estebana Hernández López, mother; Juan Carlos Betancourth
Hernández, brother; Manaces Betancourt Aguilar, brother; Emma Aracely
Betancourth Aguilar, sister; Enma Aracely Betancourth Abarca, sister; Lilian María
Betancourt Álvarez, sister; Ana Luisa Vargas Soto, partner; Zara Beatris Bustillo
Rivera, daughter, and Norma Estela Bustillo Rivera, mother of Zara Beatriz.
79(54) The next of kin of Orlando Álvarez Ríos are Concepción Álvarez, father, who
passed away on October 15, 1982; Antonia Ríos, mother, and Dilcia Álvarez Ríos,
sister.
79(55) The next of kin of Diomedes Obed García Sánchez are Diomedes Tito García
Casildo, father; Andrea Sánchez Loredo, mother, who passed away on October 25,
1985; Esther Patricia García Sánchez, Jorge Moisés García Sánchez, and Fidelia
Sarahí García Sánchez, siblings.
79(56) Messrs. Reyes Servellón Santos and Bricelda Aide García Lobo, the parents of
Marco Antonio Servellón García; and Manases Betancourth Núñez and Hilda Estebana
Hernández López, the parents of Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, suffered when
they found out of the ways in which their sons were arrested and kept imprisoned
under an illegal arrest, submitted to torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading
treatment, and then extra judicially killed, as well as for the way in which the
victims’ bodies were found, in different parts of the city of Tegucigalpa, along side
the street. Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez’s mother also suffered upon recognizing
her son’s mortal remains, since she hoped he was safe under the State’s custody.
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Cfr. ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Chamber, of December 14, 2005
(dossier of evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, appendix A, folios 3241 through 3252).