Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of August 30, 2004 Provisional Measures regarding Guatemala Case of Raxcacó et al. HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of August 16, 2004, and its attachments, in which the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the InterAmerican Commission”) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) a request for provisional measures, pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”), 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”) and “7[4]” of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission, “to be adopted urgently so that the Republic of Guatemala (hereinafter ‘the State’ or [‘Guatemala’]) takes the necessary measures to preserve the lives and physical integrity, including suspension of the execution, of Ronald Ernesto Raxcacó-Reyes, Hugo Humberto Ruiz-Fuentes, Bernardino RodríguezLara and Pablo Arturo Ruiz-Almengor, who have been sentenced to death, so as not to hinder the processing of their cases before the inter-American system; before the Commission under files Nos. 12.402, P-652/04, P-169/04 and P-17/04, respectively, and, possibly, before the Court.” 2. The grounds indicated by the Commission in its request for provisional measures (supra Having Seen paragraph 1), which are summarized below: (a) At the date on which the request for provisional measures was submitted, Ronald Ernesto Raxcacó-Reyes, Hugo Humberto Ruiz-Fuentes, Bernardino Rodríguez-Lara and Pablo Arturo Ruiz-Almengor, all of Guatemalan nationality, were in prison waiting for a date to be established for execution of the final judgments sentencing them to death for the crime of kidnapping or abduction embodied in article 201 of the Guatemalan Penal Code; (b) The First and Second Judges for execution of criminal judgments have announced in the media that they will proceed to execute the individuals who have been sentenced to death. They indicated that they were awaiting information from the Supreme Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court on whether there were any pending appeals, before they established the date and time of the executions. Although the date of the executions has not been set, “it is evident from the public declarations of the judges for execution of criminal judgments that the date of the execution will be established imminently”; (c) The four men who have been condemned to death and whose names are indicated in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph, have resorted to the