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6.
The brief dated March 11, 2010, in which the State requested a deadline
extension for the submission of the requested comments (supra Having Seen 5) and
indicated that as of December 14, 2009, “Mr. Almonte et al. became the beneficiaries of
Precautionary Measures that have been implemented in coordination with the
beneficiaries.”
7.
The note from the Secretariat dated March 11, 2010, in which, following the
instructions of the President of the Tribunal, the deadline extension requested by the
State was granted (supra Having Seen 6); the communication requested that the State
make specific reference to the precautionary measures allegedly implemented to the
benefit of each of the beneficiaries and attach a copy of the court ruling in which a writ of
habeas corpus was supposedly granted to the benefit of Mr. Juan Almonte Herrera.
Likewise, in that note, the Inter-American Commission was asked to report on the status
of implementation of the supposed precautionary measures adopted by the State (supra
Having Seen 6).
8.
The brief dated March 15, 2010, in which the State indicated that:
a) it is complying with the precautionary measures requested by the InterAmerican Commission, measures which "consist of an investigation into the
disappearance of [Mr.] Juan Almonte Herrera and of the safety of [his] family […]
and his representatives;”
b) regarding the investigation, in compliance with the ruling of the Second
Criminal Chamber of the National District [on the habeas corpus writ] ordering the
release of Mr. Jun Almonte Herrera, it is stated that Mr. Almonte “is not being held
by the National Police and the pertinent steps are being taken to determine his
location and punish those eventually found to be guilty of his disappearance;"
c) the Office of the Attorney General has contacted the relatives of Mr. Almonte
Herrera to "urge them to file a complaint over the disappearance;"
d) it reviewed the country’s entry and exit registries and "did not find any
indication that [Mr. Juan Almonte Herrera] left Dominican Territory;"
e) it is investigating the "identity of the alleged captors of Mr. Almonte Herrera in
the heart of the National Police;"
f) it has carried out "autopsies on the bodies of unidentified individuals to
compare them with the anthropometric dimensions of Mr. Almonte Herrera;”
g) on December 22, 2009, "after having met with the beneficiaries, a police guard
was ordered set up for all [the relatives of Mr. Almonte Herrera], with the
exception of Ms. Ana Josefa Montilla,” who is residing in the United States; and
h) based on all the foregoing, it argues that "the Precautionary Measures ordered
[by the Inter-American Commission] are being complied with."
9.
The communication dated March 16, 2010, in which the Inter-American
Commission indicated that: