ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JULY 4, 2006 * PROVISIONAL MEASURES REGARDING GUATEMALA CASE OF RAXCACÓ-REYES ET AL HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”, “the Inter-American Court” or “the Tribunal”) passed on August 30, 2004, operative paragraph no. 1 of which sets forth: 1. The State shall adopt, without delay, all measures necessary to protect the life of Ronald Ernesto Raxcacó-Reyes, Hugo Humberto Ruiz-Fuentes, Bernardino Rodríguez-Lara and Pablo Arturo Ruiz-Almengor to avoid hindering proceedings under their respective cases before the Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection. 2. The brief of the State of Guatemala (hereinafter "the State" or "Guatemala") of September 16, 2004, whereby it submitted its first report on the provisional measures ordered by the Court. In that brief, the State argued that: a) the Presidential Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “COPREDEH”) is making its best efforts before domestic authorities to avoid the execution of the four persons subject to these measures until international proceedings are concluded; b) two bills have been submitted to and preliminary approved by the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic to eliminate the death penalty, in the first case, and to abrogate any specific law related thereto. Both bills are aimed at suspending the enforcement of the death penalty and complying with the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the American Convention") and the decisions of the Court, and c) the actions promoted by COPREDEH are aimed at suspending the execution of the death penalty while domestic proceedings are pending regarding requests for pardon in order to suspend or commute convictions by exercising this right. 3. In their comments to the first State report, the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures (hereinafter “the representatives”) of Judge Oliver Jackman informed the Court that, for reasons beyond his control, he would not be able to attend the deliberation and signing of this Order.