Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of July 9, 2009 Provisional Measures regarding Colombia Case of Gutiérrez Soler HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Court,” “the Inter-American Court” or “the Tribunal”) of March 11, 2005, through which the provisional measures of the present case were ordered. 2. The Judgment on merits, reparations, and costs issued by the Inter-American Court on September 12, 2005, in this case, through which it resolved that the State “must see particularly to guarantee the life, integrity, and security of Mr. Wilson and Ricardo Gutierrez Soler and their next of kin, and must offer them the necessary protection from any persons, taking into account the circumstances of this case, in conformity with the Order of provisional measures dictated by the Tribunal on March 11, 2005.” (tenth operative paragraph of the Judgment on merits, reparations, and costs of September 12, 2005). 3. The Order dictated by the Court on November 27, 2007, through which it resolved: 1. To require the State of Colombia to maintain and adopt the necessary measures to: a) protect the life and personal integrity of María Elena Soler de Gutiérrez, Carlos Andrés Gutiérrez Rubiano and Leydi Caterin Gutiérrez Peña; b) to protect the life, personal integrity, and personal liberty of Mr. Wilson Gutiérrez Soler and his son Kevin Daniel Gutiérrez Niño, as well as of Ricardo Gutiérrez Soler, Yaqueline Reyes, Leonardo Gutiérrez Rubiano, Ricardo Gutiérrez Rubiano, Sulma Tatiana Gutiérrez Rubiano, Paula Camila Gutiérrez Reyes and Luisa Fernanda Gutiérrez Reyes, in the case that they return to the country, in conformity with [….] of the present Order. 2. To require the State of Colombia to present an evaluation in its next report about the situation of risk of the beneficiaries María Elena Soler de Gutiérrez, Carlos Andrés Gutiérrez Rubiano and Leydi Caterin Gutiérrez Peña; and the measures that, in accordance with this situation of risk, have been put into practice in conformity with […] the present Order. […] 4. The report of August 25, 2008, through which the Republic of Colombia (hereinafter, “the State” or “Colombia”) referred to the provisional measures adopted and to the impossibility to make available the evaluation regarding the situation of risk of Maria Elena Soler de Gutiérrez, Carlos Andrés Gutiérrez Rubiano, and Leydi Caterin Gutiérrez Peña, the beneficiaries of the present measures, because they were unable to be contacted. 5. The note of the Secretary of the Court of August 28, 2008, through which the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures (hereinafter, “the representatives”) were asked information regarding the location and the situation of the beneficiaries of the measures.