12 Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela, as well as by a significant number of civil society organizations, experts and academic entities. 34. A day-and-a-half-long Regional Meeting of Experts on Pretrial Detention was held, which was attended by fourteen specialists representing the main 36 geographic areas of the region. The main objective of this event was to receive specific feedback on the Recommendations chapter. The materials presented by the experts were also used as input for this report. 35. Two thematic hearings were held on the topics addressed in the report, one of a general nature on the “Use of pretrial detention in the Americas,” th 37 during the course of the IACHR’s 146 session; and the other one on “Judicial th 38 independence and preventive prison in the Americas,” during the 147 session. The information received at these hearings also provided important input in this work. …continuation to the Rapporteurship on October 10, 2013. Memorandum from the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Guatemala No. 350-000709-12, classification DDHH/Sub-CCPP of November 8, 2012, conveying note of the Presidential Commission on Human Rights (COPREDEH), No. DE-999-2012/COMC/MR/hc of November 5, 2012. Official Letter from the General Directorate of Special Affairs of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations No. 1219-DGAE-12 of November 6, 2012, forwarding official letter of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic No. SPA-A-161-2012 of November 6, 2012. Additionally, official information received by the Rapporteurship on Persons Deprived of Liberty on its visit to Honduras from August 1 to 2, 2013. Note of the Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the OAS, of February 12, 2013, conveying the report titled “Situation of Information with Regard to the Application of Preventive Detention” drafted by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Note of the Permanent Mission of Panama to the OAS, PANA-OEA-9-842 of November 15, 2012, forwarding note of the Ministry of Foreign Relations A.J.D.H. No. 363 of November 15, 2012. Note of the Permanent Mission of Paraguay to the OAS, No. 583-12/MPP/OEA. Note of the Office of the Permanent Representative of Peru to the OAS No. 7-5-M/451 of September 28, 2012, forwarding official letter of the Office of the Special Supranational Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights No. 2132012-JUS/PPES of September 28, 2012; and supplementary information submitted by means of note of the Office of the Permanent Representative of Peru to the OAS No. 7-5-M/462 of October 10, 2012, submitting report of the Executive Secretariat of the National Council of Human Rights No. 2012-JUS-DGDH-DVC. Note of the Permanent Mission of Suriname to the OAS, No. PVOAS/942/12/NB/CE of November 28, 2012. Note of the Permanent Mission of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to the OAS No. 119/2012 of October 23, 2012, forwarding the report of the Directorate for Human Rights and Humanitarian Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, drafted on the basis of input from the Prison Advisory Office of the Ministry of the interior and the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Justice. Note of the Agent of the State for Human Rights before the Inter-American and International Human Rights System dated October 2, 2012. 36 Summary of the meeting, the audio of the discussion panels, the submissions of the guest experts and other materials are available at: http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/ppl/actividades/prisionpreventiva.asp. 37 IACHR, Thematic Hearing: Use of pretrial detention in the Americas, 146th Regular Period of Sessions, organized by the Due Process of Law Foundation, DeJusticia, Legal Defense Institute and others. November 1, 2012, available at: http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/audiencias/Hearings.aspx?Lang=en&Session=129. 38 IACHR, Thematic Hearing: Judicial independence and preventive prison in the Americas, 147th Regular Period of Sessions, organized by the Due Process of Law Foundation, the Institute of Law and Society (CIDES), the Institute of Legal Defense (IDL) and DeJusticia, on March 16, 2013, available in Spanish at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBgytTVoNo&list=PLkh9EPEuEx2st1_l-W6cr0o3oH9DxBSDc&index=1.