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9.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to adopt, forthwith, the
necessary measures to protect the lives and personal integrity of Father Pedro Ruquoy
and Solange Pierre, witnesses at the public hearing of August 8, 2000[;]
10.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic and the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights to provide the Inter-American Court of Human Rights with
detailed information on the situation of members of the border communities or “bateys”
who may be subject to forced repatriation, deportation or expulsion[;]
11.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to report to the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights every two months as of the notification of this order, on the
provisional measures that it has adopted in compliance with it[; and]
12.
To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its
comments on the reports of the State of the Dominican Republic within six weeks of
receiving them.
2.
The order of the Inter-American Court of November 12, 2000, it which it was
decided:
1.
To ratify the order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights of September 14, 2000, and, therefore, to require the State of the Dominican
Republic to adopt, forthwith, the necessary measures to protect the life and personal
integrity of Rafaelito Pérez Charles and Berson Gelim[;]
2.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to refrain from deporting or
expelling Rafaelito Pérez Charles from its territory[;]
3.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to allow the immediate return of
Berson Gelim to its territory, even making it possible for him to meet with his son[;]
4.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic to continue the follow-up of the
investigations that were already initiated by the competent authorities regarding
Rafaelito Pérez Charles and Berson Gelim[;]
5.
To require the State of the Dominican Republic, in its reports on the provisional
measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 18, 2000, to
also report on the urgent measures it has adopted in compliance with this Order[; and]
6.
To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its
remarks on the report of the State of the Dominican Republic within six weeks of
receiving them.
3.
The communication of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
(hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) of December
14, 2000, in which it asks the Court to request the State of the Dominican Republic
(hereinafter “the State” or “the Dominican Republic”):
1.
[...to provide] assurances that Father Ruquoy can return to the Dominican
Republic as a legal resident, after visiting his ailing mother in Belgium;
2.
[...] that the Government emit a public declaration distancing itself from the
attacks on Father Ruquoy and Solange Pierre, and confirming that the former is a
permanent resident and the latter a Dominican citizen, and also that both [were] the
subjects of a provisional measures of the Honorable Court protecting their lives and
physical integrity[.]
Finally, it requested the Inter-American Court to remind the State that all the
provisional measures that it had issued were fully in force.
4.
The State’s second report of January 2, 2001, in which it stated that the
Directorate of Migration had still not been able to locate Rafaelito Pérez Charles and
Berson Gelim, and had therefore requested the help of the Red de Encuentro