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<DIV><BR>Dear colleagues,<BR><BR>The International Human Rights Clinic at Loyola Law School Los Angeles <BR>is looking for individuals or organizations to sign on to an amicus <BR>curiae brief it prepared for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. <BR>The case is: Nadège Dorzema et al v. the Dominican Republic (also known <BR>as the case of the Guayubin Massacre) case before the Inter-American <BR>Court of Human Rights. See, the IACHR press release: <BR><A href="http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2011/11-11eng.htm;">http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2011/11-11eng.htm;</A> the <BR>admissibility report: <BR><A href="http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2008eng/Dom.Republic1351.05eng.htm;">http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2008eng/Dom.Republic1351.05eng.htm;</A> <BR>the application: <A href="http://www.cidh.oas.org/demandas/12.688Esp.pdf.">http://www.cidh.oas.org/demandas/12.688Esp.pdf.</A><BR><BR>In short, the case involves events that took place along the Dominican <BR>Republic's border with Haiti on June 18, 2000, when members of the <BR>Dominican army opened fire on a vehicle that was transporting a group of <BR>Haitians trying to enter the Republic. Seven individuals lost their <BR>lives, and several others were wounded. The acts were prosecuted in <BR>military courts, even though family members of those executed had <BR>requested that the case be subject to the jurisdiction of the regular <BR>courts. After several years of proceedings, the military courts <BR>acquitted the soldiers involved. Some of the victims who survived <BR>suffered a violation to their personal liberty and violations to their <BR>right to a fair trial and their right to judicial protection, given that <BR>they were expelled from the Dominican Republic without having received <BR>due guarantees based on their status as migrants. Finally, the case <BR>falls within a context of structural discrimination against Haitians or <BR>persons of Haitian origin at the hands of Dominican agents.<BR><BR>The amicus curiae brief brings to the attention of the Court three legal <BR>issues in the case that have been neglected or have received little <BR>attention in the briefs submitted by the parties: the violation by the <BR>Dominican Republic of Article 3 of the American Convention on Human <BR>Rights (“Right to Juridical Personality”); the violation of the Vienna <BR>Convention on Consular Relations; and the violation of Article 22.9 of <BR>the American Convention (“Prohibition of Collective Expulsions”).<BR><BR>If you are interested in signing on, please contact:<BR><BR>Prof. Cesare P.R. Romano<BR><BR>Joseph W. Ford Fellow<BR><BR>Director, International Human Rights Clinic,<BR><BR>Loyola Law School Los Angeles<BR><BR>919 Albany street<BR><BR>90015 Los Angeles, CA<BR><BR>Tel: 213-736.8198<BR><BR>Email: <A href="mailto:cesare.romano@lls.edu">cesare.romano@lls.edu</A></DIV>
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