8 33. On August 26, 2004, the Due Process of Law Foundation (DOPLF) and Noami Roth-Arriaza presented an amicus curiae brief. 34. On September 2, 2004, the Fundación Sur-Argentina presented an amicus curiae brief. 35. On September 3, 2004, the Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo presented an amicus curiae brief. 36. On September 3, 2004, the Secretariat forwarded a note to the parties regarding the public hearing to be held on September 7 and 8, 2004, on preliminary objections and merits, reparation, and costs (supra para. 31 and infra para. 38). It indicated that the Court had decided to divide the said public hearing into two parts: in the first part of the public hearing, the parties would present their final arguments on preliminary objections and, in the second part, the parties would present their final arguments on merits, reparation, and costs. 37. On September 6, 2004, the State submitted a brief, to which it attached documentation, and requested the Court to admit the evidence it had attached. 38. On September 7 and 8, 2004, the Court held the public hearing on preliminary objects and merits, reparation, and costs, in which it heard the oral arguments of the State, the Inter-American Commission and the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin on preliminary objections, received the statements of the witnesses proposed by the Inter-American Commission, the representatives and the State, and finally heard the final oral arguments of the parties on merits, reparation, and costs. There appeared before the Court: for the State of El Salvador: Ricardo Acevedo Peralta, Agent Ambassador Hugo Carrillo Corleto, deputy Agent Federico Flamenco, adviser Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra, adviser José Roberto Mejía Trabanino, adviser Humberto Posada, adviser, and Carlos Alfredo Argueta Alvarado, adviser For the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Freddy Gutiérrez, delegate Ariel Dulitzky, adviser Mario López Garelli, adviser Lilly Ching, adviser, and Víctor Madrigal, adviser For the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin: Alejandra Nuño, representative of CEJIL; Gisela de León, representative of CEJIL; Roxanna Altholz, representative of CEJIL; Soraya Long, representative of CEJIL;