3 12. By note of May 15, 1987, the President informed the Government that "at the public hearings on the cases, the Government shall proceed first and the Commission shall follow. In presenting its case, the Government shall be free to make oral arguments and to request or 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. The hearing took place at the seat of the Court on June 15, 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 II 15. According to the petition filed with the Commission on October 7, 1981, and the supplementary information received subsequently, Angel Manfredo Velásquez Rodríguez, a student at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, "was violently detained without a warrant for his arrest by members of the Dirección Nacional de Investigación (DNI) and G-2 of the Armed Forces of Honduras" on the afternoon of September 12, 1981, in Tegucigalpa. According to the petitioners, several eyewitnesses reported that he and others were detained and taken to the cells of Public Security Forces Station No. 2 located in the Barrio El Manchén of Tegucigalpa, where he was "accused of alleged political crimes and subjected to harsh interrogation and cruel torture." The petition added that on September 17, 1981, Velásquez Rodríguez was moved to the First Infantry Battalion, where the interrogation continued, but that the police and security forces, nevertheless, denied that he had been detained. 16. On October 14 and November 24, 1981, the Commission transmitted the relevant parts of the petition to the Government and requested information on the matter. 17. When the Commission received no reply, it again asked the Government for information on May 14, 1982, warning that if it did not receive the information within a reasonable time, it would