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present relevant evidence on the matters under consideration. The Commission shall have the
same right."
13.
By Resolution of June 8, 1987, the Court affirmed the President's Order of January 30,
1987, in its entirety.
14.
By note of June 8, 1987, the Minister of Justice of Costa Rica placed at the disposal of the
Court all that Government's documentation on the instant case, as the Head of the Consular
Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had done previously on October 6, 1986. The offer
of that documentation was made known to the Government and to the Commission.
15.
The hearing took place at the seat of the Court on June 16, 1987.
There appeared before the Court
for the Government of Honduras:
Edgardo Sevilla Idiáquez, Agent
Mario Díaz Bustamante, Representative
Rubén Darío Zepeda G., Adviser
Angel Augusto Morales, Adviser
Mario Boquín, Adviser
Enrique Gómez, Adviser
Olmeda Rivera, Adviser
Mario Alberto Fortín M., Adviser
Ramón Rufino Mejía, Adviser
for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
Gilda M. C. M. de Russomano, President, Delegate
Edmundo Vargas Carreño, Executive Secretary, Delegate
Claudio Grossman, Adviser
Juan Méndez, Adviser
Hugo Muñoz, Adviser
José Miguel Vivanco, Adviser
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16.
According to the petition filed with the Commission on January 14, 1982, Francisco Fairén
Garbi, a 28-year-old student and public employee, and Yolanda Solís Corrales, also 28 and a
teacher, both Costa Rican nationals, disappeared in Honduras on December 11, 1981, while in
transit through that country on their way to Mexico. It was also claimed that the authorities
denied that the Costa Ricans had ever entered Honduras, whereas reports from the Government
of Nicaragua certified their departure for Honduras through the Las Manos border post at 4:00
p.m. on December 11, 1981. The petition asked for an appeal to the Government of Honduras to
respect their lives and personal security and that the Government of Costa Rica to be informed of
their whereabouts and physical condition.
17.
Upon receiving the petition, the Commission forwarded the relevant parts to the
Government on January 19, 1982 and requested information on the matter.
18.
On January 21, 1982, the Commission received additional information on the case. It sent
the relevant parts thereof to the Government on February 22, 1982.