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Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval and
Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes;
2.
to declare that the State violated Article 4 of the American Convention on
Human Rights, in relation to its Article 1.1, to the detriment of Henry Giovanni
Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, Jovito Josué Juárez
Cifuentes and Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales;
3.
to declare that the State violated Article 5.1 and 5.2 of the American
Convention on Human Rights, in relation to its Article 1.1, to the detriment of Henry
Giovanni Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Jovito Josué Juárez
Cifuentes and Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval;
4.
to declare that the State violated Article 5.2 of the American Convention on
Human Rights, in relation to its Article 1.1, to the detriment of the mothers of Henry
Giovanni Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Jovito Josué Juárez
Cifuentes and Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, Ana María Contreras, Matilde Reyna
Morales García, Rosa Carlota Sandoval, Margarita Sandoval Urbina, Marta Isabel
Túnchez Palencia and Noemí Cifuentes;
5.
to declare that the State violated Article 19 of the American Convention on
Human Rights, in relation to its Article 1.1, to the detriment of Julio Roberto Caal
Sandoval, Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes and Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales;
6.
to declare that the State violated Articles 8.1 and 25 of the American
Convention on Human Rights, in relation to its Article 1.1, to the detriment of Henry
Giovanni Contreras, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes,
Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez and Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales and their
immediate next of kin;
7.
to declare that the State violated Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American
Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture to the detriment of Henry Giovanni
Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval and
Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes;
8.
to declare that the State violated Article 1.1 of the American Convention on
Human Rights regarding the obligation to investigate, that the State should conduct
a real and effective investigation to determine the persons responsible for the human
rights violations referred to in this judgment and eventually punish them; and
9.
to open the phase of reparations and costs and authorize the President to
adopt the corresponding procedural measures.
Judges Cançado Trindade and Abreu-Burelli advised the Court of their Joint
Concurring Opinion, which accompanies this judgment.
Done in Spanish and English, the Spanish text being authentic, at San Jose, Costa
Rica, this nineteenth day of November, 1999.
Antônio A. Cançado Trindade
President