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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 16, 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
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15.
The petition filed with the Commission on October 9, 1982 alleges that Saul Godínez Cruz,
a schoolteacher, disappeared on July 22, 1982 after leaving his house by motorcycle at 6:20 a.m.
and while in route to his job at the Julia Zelaya Pre-Vocational Institute in Monjarás de Choluteca.
The petition states that an eyewitness saw a man in a military uniform and two persons in civilian
clothes arrest a person who looked like Godínez Cruz. They placed him and his motorcycle in a
double-cabin vehicle without license plates. According to some neighbors, his house had been
under surveillance, presumably by government agents, for some days before his disappearance.
16.
That same day, October 9, 1982, a complaint on his disappearance was filed in the First
Court of the Department of Choluteca.
17.
On November 2, 1982 the Commission sent the relevant parts of the petition to the
Government and requested information on the matter. By note of November 29, 1982, the
Government responded that the request had been "forwarded to the different competent bodies
for the proper investigation."
18.
On June 1, 1983, the Commission repeated its request with the admonition that, if the
Government did not provide the information, the Commission would apply Article 42 (formerly 39)
of its Regulations and presume the allegations to be true.