ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS* OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2001 PROVISIONAL MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA CARPIO NICOLLE CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The June 4, 1995 Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the President of the Court”) to the following effect: 1. To request that the Government of the Republic of Guatemala adopt without delay all necessary measures to effectively ensure the protection of the lives and personal integrity of the following persons: MARTA ELENA ARRIVILLAGA DE CARPIO, KAREN FISCHER DE CARPIO, MARIO LOPEZ ARRIVILLAGA, ANGEL ISIDRO GIRON GIRON and ABRAHAM MENDEZ GARCIA, and to investigate the threats and harassment of the persons named and to punish those responsible. 2. To request that the Government of the Republic of Guatemala adopt all necessary measures so that witnesses to the Carpio Case can testify, and so that the prosecutor in the case, Abraham Méndez García, can fulfill his duties without pressure or reprisals. 3. To request that the Government of the Republic of Guatemala inform the military authorities of the Military Zone to which the Civil Defense Committees of San Pedro Jocopilas answer, to instruct these Committees to refrain from taking any actions that would put the lives or personal integrity of the individuals named at risk. [...] 2. The September 19, 1995 Order of the Court wherein it confirmed the measures adopted by the President in the Order of June 4, 1995. 3. The Court’s September 19, 1997 Order, to the following effect: 1. To call upon the State to include in its next report the appropriate documentation on the status of case No. 1011-97 and the concrete advances made into the investigations of the denounced threats and acts of intimidation. 2. To call upon the State to continue to report to the Court every two months from the date of notification of this Order on the measures it has taken in this case, and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to continue submitting its comments on that information to the Court not later than six weeks from the date of its receipt. 4. The Court’s June 19, 2001 Order wherein it resolved, inter alia, to reiterate to the State its request that it submit relevant information on the status of case No. 1011-97, and on “the concrete advances made into the investigations of the denounced threats and acts of intimidation.” 5. * The Court’s November 27, 1998 Order wherein it resolved: Judge Máximo Pacheco Gómez informed the Court that for reasons of force majeure, he would not be present for part of the Court’s LII regular session. Therefore, he neither participated in the deliberations on this Order nor affixed his name thereto.