May 10, 2010, Mr. Meléndez Quijano was arrested “during a vehicle control action by the Police,” and was then “illegal detained” for “more than 24 hours,” during which “for more than eight,” he was “handcuffed to iron bars”; 16 (f) on January 15, 2011, when Mr. Meléndez Quijano was getting into his vehicle, he observed a women who was taking photographs of him; (g) that same day, a suspicious individual took photographs of Mr. Meléndez Quijano and of his daughters Andrea Elisabeth and Estefani Marcela, both with the surnames Meléndez García; (h) on February 20, 2011, an individual approached Estefani Marcela Meléndez García when she was at “an activity to evangelize people in a settlement near her home […] and […] he addressed her in an intimidating way and forced her to shake hands with him”; (i) on March 11, 2011, an individual took photographs of Estefani Marcela Meléndez García when she was in school; (j) on June 23, 2011, Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s mother was followed by a vehicle when she left her home accompanied by two security agents; 17 (k) on September 8, 2011, Mr. Meléndez Quijano and his daughter Estefani Marcela García Meléndez received threats in a text message, an incident that was reported by a security agent to the “Victims and Witnesses Division of the National Civil Police”; (l) on December 25, 2011, when they were leaving a restaurant, members of Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s family saw several armed individuals who were running towards them and, therefore, had to get into their car rapidly; (m) on March 1, 2012, the security agent of Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s mother saw several suspicious individuals when she was dining in a restaurant; (n) on March 19, 2012, when Andrea Elisabeth Meléndez García, Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s daughter, was at the university, two suspicious individuals, who were not students, insisted on entering the washroom; (ñ) on March 26, 2012, another three suspicious individuals tried to enter the same university, and the establishment’s security personnel found “a knife [on them …], but were unaware of their motives or intentions”; 18 (o) on May 21, 2012, Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano, Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s sister, was followed by two suspicious individuals when she was buying fruit in a market; (p) on June 16, 2012, a suspicious individual came to the home of Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano, “was questioned by [security personnel …] and left rapidly”; (q) on June 19, 2012, after dropping Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano off at a church, the vehicle driven by the “driver” that had taken her was intercepted by another “and suddenly an individual opened the door and threatened him with a rifle”; (r) on July 31, 2012, a security agent collected Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s daughter from the university and made her enter the car without telling her where they were going; 19 (s) on September 10, 2012, Mr. Meléndez Quijano’s sister was again followed by two suspicious individuals; 20 (t) on December 21, 2012, Mr. Meléndez Quijano received a threat in a text message that said that “if [he did] not want to see his daughters’ blood, [he should] call [a certain telephone number].” 21 16 The representation of the beneficiaries indicated, with regard to this fact, that he “does not know whether this is a fact related to the situation of Colonel Meléndez [Quijano] and the State of El Salvador, but it revealed the institutional weakness that allows arbitrary and illegal acts,” which, in his opinion, “increases the vulnerability of [Mr. Meléndez Quijano] and his family members.” 17 Regarding the presentation of information about this incident to the State authorities, the representation of the beneficiaries asserted that the incident was described by the security agent who was on duty that day during a meeting held with the multidisciplinary team of the Executive Technical Unit of the Justice Sector. 18 Mr. Meléndez Quijano indicated that, on May 3, 2012, “the [said] events [of December 25, 2011, March 1, 19 and 26, 2012,] had been reported to the Office of the Prosecutor General.” 19 Mr. Meléndez explained that “as a family, [they had] not authorized Police patrol cars and uniformed agents to go and collect the protected person from the university.” 20 The representation of the beneficiaries advised that, on September 17, 2012, a report had been filed before the Prosecutor General’s Office concerning the incidents of May 21, June 16 and 19, July 31 and September 10, 2012. 21 The representation of the beneficiaries indicated that this incident was reported to the National Civil Police by a security agent on Saturday, December 22, 2012. 9