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b)
during year 2005, the Fondo Nacional para Edificaciones Penitenciarias
(National Fund for Jail Construction) carried out several works to refurbish the
Appendixed building of the Center assigned for lodging female detainees;
c)
during year 2006, several works will be carried out to improve the
infrastructure of the Confinement Center.
12.
The Order of the President, dated January 13, 2006, whereby he decided:
1.
To request the State to maintain and reinforce the measures it has already been
implementing, as well as to immediately adopt the supplementary measures necessary
to efficiently and definitively avoid any type of violence within the Monagas Judicial
Confinement Center (“La Pica”), and to avoid the death or any harm to the physical
integrity of any inmate or any other person within the Confinement Center.
2.
To request the State to carry out all actions necessary for planning and
implementing the protective measures issued in favor of the detainees held at the
Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”), with the participation of the
representatives of the beneficiaries of such measures and, generally, to keep the Court
informed on the progress of said implementation.
3.
To request the State to send the Court an updated list of the persons held in
custody in said Confinement Center, stating in detail the characteristics of their
detention.
4.
To request the State to conduct an investigation of the events that prompted
the issuance of the urgent measures, in order to identify the persons liable and to
impose them the corresponding penalties, both administrative and disciplinary.
5.
To request the State to submit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,
not later than January 23, 2006, a report on the provisional measures adopted in
compliance with this Order, and to request the representatives of the beneficiaries and
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit their objections to the
abovementioned report within a term of five and seven days, respectively, as from the
day they received the notice of the report submitted by the State.
[…]
13.
The communication of the Commission on January 17, 2006, whereby it
informed that on January 13, 2006, an inmate of La Pica Confinement Center died
from a bullet wound.
14.
The written statement filed by the State on January 23, 2006, whereby it
stated, inter alia, that:
a)
as of year 2004, the State has adopted urgent measures in order to
improve the conditions existing within the prisons of the country, including the
enactment of an executive order declaring the state of national emergency of
confinement centers;
b)
It requested the Court a reasonable term within which the State could
effectively prove that the events that prompted the Order of the President did
no derive from a systematic policy of the State consisting in violating the
human rights of the detainees held at La Pica Confinement Center, but from a
temporary situation regarding which several measures had been adopted in
order to solve it;
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