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effectiveness of the search and tracking process; (e) provide the authors with detailed
information on the outcome of the investigation; (f) prosecute and punish the persons found
responsible for the violations committed and make the results of those proceedings public;
(g) ensure that adequate psychological rehabilitation and medical treatment are available to
the authors, as needed; and (h) grant the authors, as well as Mr. Téllez Padilla if he is still
alive, full reparation, including adequate compensation for the violations suffered. The
State party is also under an obligation to take steps to prevent the occurrence of similar
violations in the future.
12.
Bearing in mind that, by becoming a party to the Optional Protocol, the State party
has recognized the competence of the Committee to determine whether or not there has
been a violation of the Covenant and that, pursuant to article 2 of the Covenant, the State
party has undertaken to ensure for all individuals within its territory or subject to its
jurisdiction the rights recognized in the Covenant and to provide an effective and
enforceable remedy when a violation has been established, the Committee wishes to receive
from the State party, within 180 days, information on the measures taken to give effect to
the present Views. The State party is also requested to publish the present Views and to
have them widely disseminated.
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