3 kidnapped and later arbitrarily detained and tortured so as to obtain from him a signed ministerial confession that incriminated [him]. He was later indicted illegally and convicted to 50 years in prison by a Court Decision Secretary rather than by a judge.” On July 17, 1998, Mr. Martín-del-Campo submitted to the Commission additional information concerning his petition. 6. On August 10, 1998, the Commission sent a note to the petitioner whereby it advised him that “for the time being it was unable to process his request, since the information therein contained did not meet the requirements established in the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Commission […], especially in relation to articles 32, 33, 34 and 37.” In consequence, the Commission requested him to submit to it in due time the following information: a) a specific account of such facts as he felt constituted violations of the American Convention, with reference to the respective articles, and b) the final judgment of the internal jurisdiction with respect to the facts denounced. 7. On October 8, 1999, Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo sent the Commission a brief in response to its previous request. Further, on October 29, 1999, Christians for the Abolition of Torture (hereinafter “ACAT”), the Center for Justice and International Law (hereinafter “CEJIL”), and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights filed “a formal complaint, containing descriptions of what, in their opinion, were violations, by Mexico, of human rights established in the Convention”. In their complaint, the claimants requested the Commission to conclude that the State violated articles 1(1), 2, 5, 7, 8 y 25 of the American Convention to the detriment of Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo. Furthermore, in relation to exhaustion of domestic remedies, the claimants reported that the Office of the Distrito Federal Attorney General had initiated preliminary investigation SC/3839/95-03, after a penal complaint had been filed on May 11, 1995, for alleged tortures to which Mr. Martíndel-Campo had been subjected, without anyone having been identified as being responsible; that Penal Court 55 prosecuted Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo and convicted him to 50 years in prison in the first instance, a decision that was rendered final on August 17, 1993 by Section Eight of the Distrito Federal Superior Court; that Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo filed an amparo appeal motion against this judgment which was rejected on December 02, 1997; and that on April 05, 1999, the alleged victim filed a recognition-of-innocence remedy which was declared not applicable on April 29, 1999 by Penal Section 17 of the Distrito Federal Superior Court. Concerning non jurisdictional departments, the claimants pointed out that on October 14, 1994, the office of the Internal Comptroller of the Distrito Federal Attorney General’s Office issued a resolution that determined administrative liability on the part of judicial police officer Sotero Galván-Gutiérrez, for having “arbitrarily detained” Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo, and for “not having abstained from the use of force” against him; and that the alleged victim had filed complaints with the National Human Rights Committee and the Distrito Federal Human Rights Committee, which had produced no results. 8. On November 04, 1999 and with a reference to case number 12.228, the Commission transmitted to the State the pertinent sections of the claimants’ communication, which had been received on October 29, 1999. For its part, the Commission, in conformity with the provisions of Article 37 of its Rules of Procedure and together with information relative to the facts, requested that the State provided any criteria which could help determine whether or not internal jurisdiction remedies had been exhausted in this case.