CCPR/C/114/D/2134/2012 comply but continued on his way, moving into the middle of a convoy of vehicles that was headed in the same direction as a protective measure. 2.5 On 17 March 1995, the car in which Mr. Anzola and Mr. Molina had been travelling was found abandoned in San Francisco (department of Antioquia). According to a report dated 17 August 2005 and issued by the Puerto Triunfo public prosecutor’s office, the vehicle had been found with no trace of the occupants other than Mr. Anzola’s identity card. However, the only article to be sent to Mr. Anzola ’s wife was the identity card of Mr. Anzola’s deceased father. The police informed Ms. Usuga that the car, which it had seized, had been found intact. When it was returned to her, however, it had been ransacked. 2.6 The facts of the case were brought to the attention of the Association of Relatives of Detainees and Disappeared Persons (ASFADDES) and the Colombian Commission of Jurists. On behalf of the authors, ASFADDES filed complaints with the police in Doradal (11 March 1995); the Attorney General ’s Office (18 March 1995); the Counsel General’s Office, the Ombudsman’s Office, the municipal ombudsman’s office in Medellín, the District Directorate of Prosecution Services in Antioquia and the District Directorate of Judicial Investigations of the National Police (5 April 1995); the Provincial Office of the Attorney General (10 and 14 July 1995); and the Office of the President of the Republic (15 April 1996). 2.7 On 15 March and 5 July 2005, ASFADDES submitted two requests for urgent action to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and to international NGOs. 2.8 Through ASFADDES, the authors exercised their right of petition, 1 requesting information on the status of investigations from the armed forces (the army) (25 June and 23 July 1995), the Provincial Office of the Attorney General (11 July 1995), the public prosecutor’s office in Puerto Triunfo (30 October 1995, 24 August 1998, 4 September 2001, 25 April 2005, 17 August 2005, 25 July 2006 and 11 April 2007), the municipal ombudsman in Puerto Triunfo (2 February 1996), the Technical Investigation Corps in Antioquia (5 July 1996), the Puerto Berrío Enforced Disappearance Unit, which is part of the Attorney General ’s Office (4 June 1996), the public prosecutor’s office in Puerto Berrío (31 October 1996) and the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science (30 August 2000). 2.9 On 3 June 1996, ASFADDES submitted a petition to the armed forces regarding a stone quarry near the military base that was allegedly being operated to fund the paramilitary group Autodefensas Campesinas del Magdalena Medio (Campesino Self Defence Forces of Middle Magdalena) led by Commander Ramón Isaza, and where approximately 300 persons were being made to work against their will and without their families’ knowledge. 2.10 On 24 June 1996, the armed forces — through the commander of the Fourteenth Brigade — responded to the petition from ASFADDES, stating that they were not aware of the existence of any paramilitary groups and that intelligence activities had been carried out but no trace of the stone quarry had been found. 2.11 On 18 September 2001, Ms. Molina filled out the disappeared persons search request form used by the Attorney General’s Office. 2.12 Under Act No. 975 of 2005 (known as the Justice and Peace Act), several members of Autodefensas Campesinas del Magdalena Medio were demobilized and availed themselves of the special procedure established pursuant to the Act. In their __________________ 1 4/20 Article 23 of the Colombian Constitution establishes that “every person has the right to submit respectful petitions to the authorities for reasons of general or private interest and to obtain a prompt response”. GE.15-15601