A/HRC/41/35/Add.1 Social protest and demonstrations 84. The Special Rapporteurs call upon the relevant authorities to: (a) Ensure that the exercise of the right to peaceful assembly is ensured at all times during protests and that the rights to life, to humane treatment and to individual liberty are protected; (b) Develop policies, strategies and special training focused on negotiation techniques and peaceful conflict resolution, as well as law enforcement manoeuvres for responding to potential riots and disturbances with minimal risk to the lives and safety of civilians and police officers; (c) Adequately and effectively prevent, investigate and punish unnecessary and excessive use of force by law enforcement officers, showing greater rigour when the force has been directed against vulnerable groups, taking account of the historical discrimination against them on the basis of their ethnicity, race, sex or sexual orientation, among other grounds; (d) Adopt measures to prevent undue judicial harassment of demonstrators and human rights defenders, such as protocols and training for court officials. Reparations 85. The Special Rapporteurs call upon the relevant authorities to establish individual reparation measures aimed at providing restitution, compensation or rehabilitation to victims, as well as general measures of satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition for the broad range of violations of freedom of expression in the last decade. The measures of reparation should include: (a) The acknowledgement, through public statements by the most senior government officials, of the legitimacy and value of the work of journalists and the repudiation at all times of crimes committed against them; (b) The enactment by the National Assembly of a transition provision in the amendment of the Organic Law on Communications to establish a process for reviewing the application of penalties by the Superintendency of Information and Communication; (c) The enactment of an amnesty law for media professionals, human rights defenders and political leaders who have been subject to persecution by the authorities; (d) The implementation of memory and truth processes aimed at ensuring that victims of criminal prosecution resulting from the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression are aware of the truth of what happened, including the role of the various judicial bodies involved in their respective cases; (e) The addressing, as a priority, of the petitions and cases submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by victims of alleged violations such as those referred to in the present report, and participation without delay in the friendly settlement mechanisms requested by those victims. 19