6. The facts alleged occurred after the granting of precautionary measures, namely: a) the situation of risk faced by Mrs. Luz Estela Castro Rodríguez increased in November 2012, in relation to her activities with the organizations CEDHEM and “El Barzón”, prompted by the situation affecting human rights defenders in the State of Chihuahua (supra Having Seen 3). This increased risk “has been accompanied by a series of statements by high-ranking authorities in the State of Chihuahua which further heighten that risk”; b) regarding her activities in the CEDHEM organization, in relation to the quest for justice for the death of Marisela Escobedo, the Commission stated that: i. on December 8, 2012 CEDHEM issued a press release in which it “demanded greater transparency from the Government of the State of Chihuahua in the investigation of the death of Marisela Escobedo. The reason for this press release was that two days earlier the State Governor had announced the arrest of a second perpetrator at a press conference. In its communiqué, CEDHEM stated that on December 15, 2011 the Prosecutor’s Office had already presented another person as the perpetrator”; ii. on October 11, 2012 the Attorney General of the State made public statements that the petitioners consider are directed at Luz Estela Castro 3; iii. that same day, October 11, 2012, the daily newspaper “El Tiempo” published an article reporting the statements made by Secretary General of Government of Chihuahua also directed at Luz Estela Castro 4, and c) in the second place, regarding her work in the organization “El Barzón”, the Commission indicated that Mrs. Luz Estela Castro’s activities in that organization generated “a series of threats that have been carried out”, namely: 3 “I feel very sorry, it pains me very much that a person would involve a young man to defend the presumed killer of her mother, and it’s a shame that this social leader also uses this young man to defend the killers of the journalists who died in Barrio Colorado [...]. I am very sorry that this social activist is defending murderers [...] the proceedings are open to join in the defense of murderers.” 4 “It’s not fair that Lucha Castro, motivated by questionable interests, should confuse society, twisting things at her whim, much less that she should demand integrity because of an invented smear campaign against her […]. She manipulates things at will, just because firm actions were taken that resulted in significant declines in the crime rate, which Lucha Castro does not acknowledge either. […] Her statements injure numerous public servants, such as investigators, ministerial agents, prosecutors, who have made an enormous effort to resolve the case of Marisela Escobedo, something that Lucha Castro herself has demanded relentlessly, and now that this has happened, for some strange reason, she rejects it, as she has done in countless other cases. For example, I wish to remind the citizens that in one of her impassioned defenses, Lucha Castro succeeded in ensuring that someone [implicated] in the massacre of Villas de Salvárcar, is at his home under house arrest, instead of in jail.” 3