34 District; removed the member judges who were experts in public law from their positions and, in their place, appointed new magistrates and judges, including Percy Escobar as judge of the First Temporary Commercial Public Law Court39; ñ) prior to June 1977, Percy Escobar worked as a court secretary and a criminal judge and had received several disciplinary sanctions in the exercise of his functions40; o) the week prior to July 13, 1997, Channel 2 announced that on that day it would present an investigative report on the unlawful recording of telephone conversations involving candidates of opposition parties, judges and journalists, among others. This program was transmitted on the said date41; p) on July 10, 1997, the Director General of the National Police Force submitted the conclusions of Report No. 003-97-IN/05010, issued the same day by the Migration and Naturalization Directorate, according to which the file that supported Mr. Ivcher’s nationality title had not been found in the Directorate’s archives and there was no evidence that he had renounced his Israeli nationality42; q) on July 11, 1997, “Directorial Resolution” No. 117-97-IN050100000000, signed by the Director General of Migration and Naturalization was issued, annulling the Peruvian nationality title of December 39 Cf. Administrative Decision No. 001-97-SC and S-CSJ, of June 25 1997, published in the official gazette “El Peruano” the same day; Administrative Decision No. 002-97-SC and S-CSJ, of June 25, 1997; expert report of Samuel Abad Yupanqui before the Inter-American Court on November 20, 2000; and several newspaper articles. 40 Cf. Note No. 816-97-A/CSJL, of March 11, 1997, addressed to the judge of the Fourteenth Criminal Court of Lima; note No. 6245-96-UA/CSJL, of November 25, 1996, addressed to Percy Escobar Lino, Lima Criminal Judge; Order No. I 335-95, issued on October 7, 1996, by the Office for the Supervision of the Magistrature of the Judiciary; note No. 6196-95-UA/CSJL, of an illegible day in November 1995, issued by the President of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, addressed to Rolando Escobar Lino, Secretary of the Twenty-second Criminal Court of Lima; note of December 23, 1994, appointing Percy Escobar; complaint note No. 725-94, of July 5, 1995, by the Office for the Supervision of the Magistrature of the Judiciary; note of December 23, 1994, appointing Percy Escobar Lino to serve on the Twenty-second Criminal Court, signed by the President of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima and by the Secretary for Administrative Matters of the Superior Court of Lima; note No. 05-94-34º JEPL-PJ, of December 19, 1994, signed by the judge of the Thirty-fourth Criminal Court of Lima, addressed to President of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima; note of December 19, 1994, signed by the judge of the Thirty-fourth Criminal Court of Lima, making Percy Escobar Lino available to the Office of the President of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima; Order referring to PD No. 692-91, of September 14, 1992, containing the decision to impose a disciplinary measure on Percy Escobar Lino; Order referring to File No. 1037-96; and several newspaper articles. 41 Cf. Videotape of announcements promoting the Channel 2 program Contrapunto; videotape of the report mentioned above, transmitted on July 13, 1997, by the Channel 2 program Contrapunto; testimony of Luis Iberico Núñez before the Inter-American Court on November 20, 2000; testimony of Baruch Ivcher Bronstein before the Inter-American Court on November 20, 2000; and several newspaper articles 42 Cf. Videotape containing the press conference convened by the Director General of the National Police Fore on July 10, 1997; testimony of July Sotelo Casanova before the Inter-American Court on November 20, 2000; “Directorial Order” No. 117-97-IN-050100000000, of July 11, 1997, entitled “Dejan sin efecto legal titulo de nacionalidad peruana”, published in the official gazette, El Peruano; and several newspaper articles

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