6 Miguel Guzmán, First Secretary, Embassy of Peru Witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Álvaro Eduardo Vidal Rivadeneyra. Expert witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Carlos Martín Rivera Paz. Expert witness proposed by the alleged victim’s representatives: Manuel Pérez González. 29. During the public hearing, the witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission, Álvaro Eduardo Vidal Rivadeneyra, and the expert witness proposed by the alleged victim’s representatives, Manuel Pérez González, and also the State and the alleged victim’s representatives, presented various documents (infra para. 52). 30. On July 8, 2004, the State advised that, the same day, the Fourth Criminal Court for Terrorism of Peru had “changed the order of detention for an order of notice to appear (liberty)” with regard to María Teresa De La Cruz Flores. Consequently, the alleged victim “would obtain her release immediately within the next few hours” (infra para. 53). 31. On July 28, 2004, the State forwarded its final written arguments. The InterAmerican Commission and the alleged victim’s representatives did the same on August 2 and 4, 2004, respectively. The State, the Commission, and the alleged victim’s representatives forwarded various documents as appendixs to their final written arguments (infra para. 54). 32. On August 30, 2004, the Inter-American Commission referred to appendix 14 of the brief with final written arguments presented by the State, which consisted in an opinion prepared by Héctor Faúndez Ledesma for the Lori Berenson Mejía case. 33. On September 3, 2004, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat called upon the State to submit a copy of all the case files of the trials conducted in the domestic jurisdiction against the alleged victim. 34. On September 9, 2004, the alleged victim’s representatives, based on one of the provisions of Article 44 of the Rules of Procedure, submitted some documents as additional evidence (infra para. 55). 35. On September 17, 2004, the State forwarded a brief as a “complement to the text of the final arguments,” to which it joined an appendix (infra para. 54). 36. On September 20, 2004, the representatives forwarded “documentation originating after the presentation of the [final] written arguments” (infra para. 55). 37. On September 21, 2004, the State forwarded the case files of the domestic proceedings against Mrs. De La Cruz Flores, which had been requested as helpful evidence (supra para. 33, and infra para. 56).

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