the Inter-American Commission’s Rapporteur for the Rights of Persons Deprived of
Liberty.
THEREFORE:
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
in exercise of the authority conferred by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on
Human Rights and Article 27 of its Rules of Procedure,
DECIDES:
1.
To reject the request to re-open the provisional measures ordered by the InterAmerican Court on November 22, 2004, subsequently ratified, and lifted on December
15, 2010, to protect the life and integrity of all those deprived of liberty in the Mendoza
Provincial Prison and in the Gustavo André Unit, of Lavalle, as well as all those who are
within these prisons.
2.
In keeping with the principle of complementarity and subordination that regulates
the inter-American human rights system, not to order the State on this occasion to adopt
provisional measures to protect the life and personal integrity of the persons deprived of
liberty in the San Felipe and Boulogne Sur Mer Units of the Mendoza Provincial Prison,
despite the information included in the forty-first and forty-second considering
paragraphs.
3.
To require the Secretariat of the Court to notify this order to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights and to the Republic of Argentina.
4.
To close the case file of this matter.
Diego García-Sayán
President
Manuel E. Ventura Robles
Margarette May Macaulay
Rhadys Abreu Blondet
Eduardo Vio Grossi
Pablo Saavedra Alessandri
Secretary
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