52 Convention, which has led to the impunity argued by the Commission and the representatives in the present case. Considerations of the Court 141. Article 7(6) of the American Convention states that: 6. Anyone who is deprived of his liberty shall be entitled to recourse to a competent court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his arrest or detention and order his release if the arrest or detention is unlawful. In States Parties whose laws provide that anyone who believes himself to be threatened with deprivation of his liberty is entitled to recourse to a competent court in order that it may decide on the lawfulness of such threat, this remedy may not be restricted or abolished. The interested party or another person in his behalf is entitled to seek these remedies. […] 142. Article 8 of the Convention states that: 1. Every person has the right to a hearing, with due guarantees and within a reasonable time, by a competent, independent, and impartial tribunal, previously established by law, in the substantiation of any accusation of a criminal nature made against him or for the determination of his rights and obligations of a civil, labor, fiscal, or any other nature. 2. Every person accused of a criminal offense has the right to be presumed innocent so long as his guilt has not been proven according to law. During the proceedings, every person is entitled, with full equality […] to the minimum guarantees [.] […] 143. Article 25 of the Convention states that: 1. Everyone has the right to simple and prompt recourse, or any other effective recourse, to a competent court or tribunal for protection against acts that violate his fundamental rights recognized by the constitution or laws of the state concerned or by this Convention, even though such violation may have been committed by persons acting in the course of their official duties. […] 144. Article 1(1) of the American Convention states that: The States Parties to this Convention undertake to respect the rights and freedoms recognized herein and to ensure to all persons subject to their jurisdiction the free and full exercise of those rights and freedoms, without any discrimination for reasons of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status, birth, or any other social condition. 145. The Commission and the representatives mentioned that “nine” years after the facts occurred, an accusation has not been presented against any suspect, and that the State has incurred in an unjustified delay in the investigations, since at the time of the presentation of the accusation in the criminal process it was still in its preliminary stages, reason for which the impunity in the present case persists. On its part, the State denied that it had not investigated the facts, but it accepted that the results produced from the same have not been up to now adequate, since “there has