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appeals and scheduled executions of Wilberforce Bernard, Naresh Boodram, Joey Ramiah,
Clarence Charles, Phillip Chotolal, George Constantine, Rodney Davis, Natasha De Leon, Mervyn
Edmund, Alfred Frederick, Nigel Mark, Wayne Matthews, Steve Mungroo, Vijay Mungroo, Wilson
Prince, Martin Reid, Noel Seepersad, Gangaleen Tahaloo, Keiron Thomas and Samuel Winchester,
and to require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to include its remarks on this
information in its observations.
d.
To require the State of Trinidad and Tobago and the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights immediately of any significant
developments concerning the circumstances of Wilberforce Bernard, Naresh Boodram, Joey
Ramiah, Clarence Charles, Phillip Chotolal, George Constantine, Rodney Davis, Natasha De Leon,
Mervyn Edmund, Alfred Frederick, Nigel Mark, Wayne Matthews, Steve Mungroo, Vijay Mungroo,
Wilson Prince, Martin Reid, Noel Seepersad, Gangaleen Tahaloo, Keiron Thomas and Samuel
Winchester.
2.
The Order of the Court of 27 May 1999, in which it decided
1.
To amplify the provisional measures ordered in the James et al. Cases and to order the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to take all measures necessary to preserve the lives of Peter
Benjamin, Kevin Dial, Andrew Dottin, Anthony Johnson, Amir Mohlaw, Allan Phillip, Krishandath
Seepersad and Narine Sooklal, so as not to hinder the processing of their Cases before the InterAmerican system.
2.
To require the State of Trinidad and Tobago to include in the fortnightly Reports to which
reference is made in operative paragraph 1.b of the Order of the Court of 25 May 1999 (supra
Having Seen 1), information on the status of the scheduled executions of Peter Benjamin, Kevin
Dial, Andrew Dottin, Anthony Johnson, Amir Mohlaw, Allan Phillip, Krishandath Seepersad and
Narine Sooklal, and to require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to include its
remarks on this information in its observations.
3.
To require the State of Trinidad and Tobago and the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights immediately of any significant
developments concerning the circumstances of Peter Benjamin, Kevin Dial, Andrew Dottin,
Anthony Johnson, Amir Mohlaw, Allan Phillip, Krishandath Seepersad and Narine Sooklal.
3.
The communication of 18 June, 1999, which was received in the Secretariat of the
Court on the same date, in which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
(hereinafter “the Commission”) submitted to the Court, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the
American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the
Convention”) and Article 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of
Procedure”), a request for the amplification of the provisional measures adopted by the
Court in the James et al. Cases, to include Mervyn Parris (Case No. 12.156) and Francis
Mansingh (Case No. 12.157), whose cases are currently pending before the Commission
against the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (hereinafter “the State” or “Trinidad and
Tobago.”)
4.
The aforesaid communication, in which the Commission requested the Court to order
the State
[to] take the measures necessary to preserve the lives and physical integrity of Mervyn Parris and
Francis Mansingh so as not to hinder the processing of their cases before the Inter-American
system, and until the situation of extreme gravity and urgency no longer persists in relation to
these individuals.
5.
The arguments presented by the Commission, to the effect that:
a)
there are two additional petitions pending before the Commission that were received by it on 25
May 1999 that indicate that Mervyn Parris and Francis Mansingh have been sentenced to the penalty of