135. As it has in other cases, 98 the Court orders the State to publish, within six months of
notification of this judgment and in a legible and appropriate font size: a) the official summary of
this judgment prepared by the Court, once, in the Official Gazette; b) the official summary of this
judgment prepared by the Court, once, in a national newspaper with wide circulation; and c) this
judgment in its entirety, available for one year, on an official website of the State, in a manner
accessible to the public from a banner on the home page of the website. The State must inform
this Court immediately when it has made each of the publications ordered, irrespective of the oneyear timeframe for presenting its first report established in the eleventh operative paragraph of
this judgment.
136. Furthermore, in order to redress the damage caused to the victims and prevent similar
incidents from occurring in the future, the Court deems it necessary to order the State to hold
a public act of recognition of international responsibility for the incidents in the instant case within
one year of the date of notification of this judgment. The human rights violations declared in
this judgment should be named in the ceremony. The act should take the form of a public
ceremony in the presence of the victims declared herein, if they so desire, and high-level state
officials. The date of the act, place where it will be held, and what it will include, should be
determined by advance agreement with the victims and/or their representatives. In addition,
in order to help raise awareness and thereby prevent and avoid a repetition of harmful acts
such as those that occurred in this case, the Court orders the State to broadcast the ceremony
over a free-to-air television channel with nationwide coverage. 99
E. Other measures requested
137. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to implement the following
mechanisms aimed at non-repetition: a) permanent training programs for police officers on the
use of force, including the use of lethal force, according to international standards; b) “measures
to ensure effective accountability in criminal, disciplinary, and administrative courts,” in the face
of the “alleged abuse of power by officers […] in charge of public security in the context of arrests
such as the one that occurred in the present case”; and c) measures aimed at “strengthening the
capacity to investigate, with all due diligence and pursuant to international standards … possible
extrajudicial executions in the context of the use of lethal force by police officers, so that effective
protocols exist to conduct such investigations.”
138. The State alleged that it “has implemented various measures to prevent the commission of
new acts that could jeopardize the effective fulfillment of the human rights of all persons within
the national jurisdiction.” It pointed out that the Ministry of the Interior had provided information
about the permanent training programs for police personnel on human rights issues including the
use of force and extrajudicial execution.
139. It added that the Court “should bear in mind the Constitutional Court of Ecuador’s
international acceptance of inter-American law in its Judgment No. 33-20-IN/21 and consolidated
cases of May 5, 2021,” which was based on the rulings in the Zambrano Vélez and García Ibarra
cases, and in various reports of the Inter-American Commission “regarding the use of force by
the National Police.” Actions of this kind “confirm the State’s position that it respects and
guarantees human rights.”
140. The Court notes, as the State itself informed it, that the State has implemented various
training programs for police officers on matters relating to national and international standards on
the use of force and procedures applied to the use of force, forced disappearances, extrajudicial
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of December 3, 2001. Series C No.
88, para. 79, and Case of Deras García et al. v. Honduras, supra, para. 108.
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Cf. Inter alia, Case of the Miguel Castro-Castro Prison v. Peru. Merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of
November 25, 2006. Series C No. 160, para. 445, and Case of Deras García et al. v. Honduras, supra, para. 109.
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