102 Pleadings of the representatives of the victim and his next of kin 252. The representatives of the victim and his next of kin endorsed the request by the Commission, and asked that the State: a) to investigate, try, and punish those responsible for the violations of Daniel Tibi’s human rights and all those who by maliciously or by omission have allowed total impunity to prevail; b) to publicly disseminate the results of the investigation, for society to know the truth; c) to vindicate Mr. Tibi’s image and to carry out a public act of acknowledgment of its responsibility in the instant case and to publicly apologize to Daniel Tibi, Beatrice Baruet and their family; to publish, in the three most widely read newspapers in Ecuador, and d) to pay for another publication in the most widely read newspapers in France, of the part regarding the facts, rights, and operative paragraphs of the judgment issued by the Court, as well as an apology to the victim and his next of kin, and a commitment by the State to ensure that facts such as these will never happen again; e) to publish the judgment of the Court in Ecuador’s official gazette, Diario Oficial; f) to produce a 30 minute video narrating the facts of the case, and publicly acknowledging participation of the agents of the State and lack of investigation on them; g) to adapt domestic legislation to the international standards: American Convention and Inter-American Convention against Torture; to penalize torture as a specific crime; and to repair the damage caused to the victims of torture, by means of specialized treatment and fair financial compensation; h) to adjust domestic procedural legislation so that preventive imprisonment is the exception rather than the rule, to ensure that detainees are not incarcerated indefinitely, and to only grant evidentiary value to confessions and statements rendered before judges; i) to adjust prison conditions to international standards, and to provide the financial means for the Dirección Nacional de Rehabilitación Social to conduct said adjustments; j) to conduct an administrative or disciplinary proceeding against the judges who heard Mr. Tibi’s case; k) to abstain from resorting to mechanisms such as amnesty, extinguishment and establishment of exemptions of liability, as well as any other measure geared toward impeding criminal prosecution or suppressing the effects of a conviction;

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