Suites données aux recommandations du comité et du Conseil d’administration - Rapport No. 306, Mars 1997

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 16. The Committee examined this case at its meeting in June 1996 (see 304th Report, paras. 40-56) and requested the Government to keep it informed of the developments in the legal proceedings brought in connection with the acts of violence that occurred during the demonstrations and strikes organized in the provinces of Tierra del Fuego, Corrientes and San Juan, especially as they relate to the death of the worker Víctor Choque, the injuries sustained by unionists Juan Roberto Vera and Alejandro Vásquez and the assault and denial of freedom of which Eloy Camus and Juan González were victim. The Committee also requested the Government to keep it informed of the legal proceedings brought by the police against the trade union leader Juan González.
2. 17. In a communication dated 14 January 1997, the Government stated that: (i) the legal proceedings relating to the provisional detention of Juan González in the province of Corrientes are currently in the inquiry stage; (ii) in the affair of the homicide of Víctor Choque, a police officer was sentenced as the person responsible for his death to nine years in prison, but this verdict is being appealed and; (iii) it was not possible to obtain information on the subject of the legal proceedings relating to the abduction of Eloy Camus in the province of San Juan. The Committee takes note of this information and requests the Government to keep it informed of the results of these legal proceedings.
3. 18. The Committee also requests the Government to keep it informed of the judicial inquiry under way concerning the injuries sustained by Juan Roberto Vera and Alejandro Vásquez, as well as the legal proceedings brought by the police against the trade union leader Juan González.