5 9. The note of June 23, 2005, whereby the Secretariat requested that the State and the Commission present relevant comments to the submission made on June 22, 2005 (supra Having Seen Clause No. 8). 10. The submissions made on June 22 and 23, 2005, wherein the representatives filed three news articles in connection with the alleged suicide of Ricardo David Videla-Fernandez, a young man who allegedly died on June 21, 2005, as well as another document whereby “the young man’s defense attorney reported this incident [to the Inter-American Court].” 11. The submission of June 23, 2005, in which the State reported the “unfortunate death of inmate Ricardo Videla-Fernandez [who had allegedly] committed suicide while confined in his cell.” 12. The submission of June 28, 2005, wherein Argentina filed a copy of the “report of the Follow-up Commission on the conditions of the Mendoza Provincial Prison,” in which inter alia Argentina reported that no cellblock lacks proper lighting devises; that some inmates reported that prolonged confinement is still being used; that there are no juvenile adults living together with adult prisoners; that the main issues affecting education are lack of space and lack of resources; and that access of prisoners to workshops is limited. Furthermore “the Follow-up Commission prepared a bill modifying the Mendoza Code of Criminal Procedure providing for a second instance in matters of execution before the Court of Appeals for cases where the decisions passed by the jail oversight judge bring about a substantive alteration of the sentence imposed.” 13. The submission of July 1, 2005, wherein the representatives filed a “criminal report [allegedly] presented by the petitioners to the Director of Prisons in Mendoza, Sergio Miranda, so that officials would investigate the [alleged] crimes of torture, harsh treatment, unlawful harassment or coercion, breach of duties inherent in public officials, disobedience [and] abuse of authority.” 14. The submission of July 4, 2005, wherein the representatives produced a news article stating that “the prisoners [allegedly held in custody in the maximum security units] were sewing up their mouths because they had been confined in individual cells for 23 hours.” 15. The submission of July 5, 2005, whereby the representatives requested that the present case “be treated in the next following term of Court […], as the national and provincial authorities showed great commitment to the issue but in fact the Asunción Agreement and the Order of the Inter-American Court of June 18, 2005, were not being complied with. Furthermore, the alleged suicide of Videla-Fernández —the young man sentenced to life imprisonment— in cellblock 11 of the local penitentiary, after 22-hour confinement periods, makes this an issue worth being tried before the Inter-American Court [as the petition regarding Mr. VidelaFernández] is pending before the Inter-American Commission.” 16. The submission of July 15, 2005, wherein the representatives remitted the order passed on July 14, 2005, by the Jail Oversight Judge in and for the Province of Mendoza resolving to compel the Executive of the Province of Mendoza to take actions so that the Complex Boulonge Sur Mer, inter alia, will offer minimum hygiene conditions, provide prisoners with mattresses and adequate and necessary bedding,

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents