6 21. On May 26, 2006, the Inter-American Commission submitted the testimonial statements made before notary public (affidavits) requested in the first operative paragraph of the order of the President of the Court of May 5, 2006 (supra para. 18). The Inter-American Commission also presented the testimonial statements made by Gladis Ester Ríos and Ana Elizabeth Mancuello Bareiro and asked that they be incorporated into the body of evidence in the case (infra paras. 56 to 59). 22. On June 2 and 5, 2006, the representatives, the Commission and the State, respectively, submitted their briefs with final written arguments. In their brief, the representatives endorsed, in general, the arguments made by the Commission concerning the violation of Articles 4, 5, 7, 8 and 25 of the Convention, to the detriment of the alleged victims, as well as most of the Commission’s arguments concerning reparations. 23. On July 17 and 24, August 1, 9 and 24, and September 8, 2006, on the instructions of the President of the Court and based on Article 45 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, the Secretariat requested the parties to submit various types of information and documentation to be considered as helpful evidence: (a) It asked the State to provide information on the actual status and results of the pending or closed extradition procedure(s), relating to the investigations and criminal proceedings instituted as a result of the facts of this case, and also copies of any documents it possessed regarding measures taken by the authorities of Paraguay or any other country in this regard. On August 8, 2006, the State presented some information and several decisions issued by Paraguayan judicial authorities, as well as other measures taken within the framework of the criminal proceedings opened in the cases of Agustín Goiburú Giménez and Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro, which had already been included in the Court’s case file. The State did not submit information on the actual status and results of the pending or closed extradition procedures(s), relating to the criminal proceedings opened in the case of the Ramírez Villalba brothers, or copies of the documents it possessed regarding measures taken by the authorities of any other country in this regard (infra para. 60); (b) It asked the Commission and the representatives for pertinent documentation proving the existence or the decease, if applicable, and the relationship of several people who were supposedly members of the alleged victims’ families. Some of this documentation was forwarded by the Commission on July 31, and August 4, 8 and 14, 2006 (infra paras. 24 and 28 to 38); (c) It asked the representatives, the Commission and the State for information on the definition of the crime of forced disappearance of persons, and also for a copy of the Penal Code and the Procedural Code applied during the criminal proceedings. Both the Commission and the State forwarded information in this regard on July 31, August 3 and September 14, 2006; and (d) It asked the State, the Commission and the representatives for information about which of the individuals who had been prosecuted and/or convicted in the three proceedings opened in relation to the