2 d) During 2006, FAFG “planned to conduct approximately 150 exhumations in the departments of Quiché, Chimaltenango, Huehuetenango, Suchitepéquez, and Alta and Baja Verapaz”; e) Since 1996, acts of intimidation have been perpetrated against the forensic anthropologists who work on exhumations in clandestine cemeteries in Guatemala; f) The threats and intimidation of members of FAFG have worsened since 2002; g) On March 8, 2002, the Commission ordered precautionary measures in favor of officials of the Foundation; these measures have been expanded at different times and are recorded by the Commission in file No. 01/02; h) The officials who are currently working at FAFG are: Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso (Executive Director), Adriana Gabriela Santos Bremme, Alan Gabriel Robinsón Cañedo, Alma Nydia Vásquez Almazán, Álvaro Luis Jacobo González, Ana Dolores Arriola Carrillo, Beatriz Díaz Arreaga, Blanca Noemí Barcenas Albizurez, Byron Estuardo García Méndez, Carlos Rene Jacinto, Claudia Eugenia Rivera Fernández, Dania Marianela Rodríguez Martínez, Danny A. Guzmán Castellanos, Dominga Alejandra Varel Sequeira, Edgar Herlindo Hernández Sánchez, Edwin Giovanni Peruch Conòs, Elder Rodolfo Urbina Urizar, Erick Oswaldo Duque Hernández, Estuardo Guevara, Fernando Arturo López Antillon, Flavio Abel Montufar Dardon, Fredy Arnoldo Cumes Erazo, Gillian Margater Fowler, Gladis Amparo Martinez Ruiz, Guillermo E. Vásquez Escobar, Gustavo Cosme Godinez, Heidy Hirua Quezada Arriaga, Irma Yolanda Morales Bucu, Jaime Enrique Ruiz Castellanos, Jessika Marisela Osorio Galindo, Jorge Luis Romero de Paz, José Fernando Alonzo Martínez, José Samuel Suasnavar Bolaños, Juan Carlos Gatica Pérez, Juan Carlos Patzán Morales , Juan Ramón Donado Vivar, Katia Victoria Orantes Poza, Leonel Estuardo Paiz Diez, Liesl Marie Cohn de Léon , Lourdes Lorena Herrera Sipaque , Lourdes Sofía Chew Pazos, Manuel Antonio Meneses Ruiz, Marco Tulio Pérez Tánchez, María Raquel Doradea, Mario Bernabé Ramírez Alarcón, Mario Nájera, Mynor Adán Silvestre Aroche, Mynor Alexander Urízar Chavarría, Myrna Graciela Díaz Gularte, Nancy Yadira Valdez Vielman, Omar Bertoni Girón de León, Oscar Ariel Ixpatá, Oswaldo Alexander García Pérez, Ramiro Edmundo Martínez Lemus, Raúl H. Archila García, Reina Patricia Ixcot Chávez, Renaldo Leonel Acevedo Álvarez, Sergio Oswaldo García López, Shirley Carola Chacón, Silvia Beatriz Pellecer Montiel and Tomasa Cifuentes Cifuentes; i) The next of kin of the Foundation’s Executive Director are: Jeannette Peccerelli, wife; Ashley Corienne Peccerelli del Valle, daughter; Tristán Collin Peccerelli del Valle, son; Fredy Armando Peccerelli Tenas, father; María del Carmen Monterroso de Peccerelli, mother; Bianka Irina Peccerelli de Girón, sister; Omar Bertoni Girón de León, brother-inlaw (who also appears as a member of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation); Gianni Paolo Peccerelli Monterroso, brother, and Luisa Fernanda Martínez de Peccerelli, sister-in-law; j) Even though the above-mentioned precautionary measures are in force, threatening acts against the Executive Director of FAFG and his next of kin “have continued and have got worse”; k) The agents assigned to protect the beneficiaries of the precautionary measures are inadequately trained and lack the appropriate equipment to carry out their functions; l) The investigations to determine the person or persons responsible for the threats against the members of FAFG, which have gone on for more than 10 years, have not produced any results to date; and m) As a result of the inefficiency of the investigations, the threats and intimidation against the beneficiaries of the precautionary measures and some of their next of kin have continued and increased in intensity. 3. The arguments of the Commission to justify their request for provisional measures, in which they indicate that: a) b) c) d) The gravity of the threats against operators and assistants of justice in Guatemala is underscored by well-known public facts; The threats against the members of FAFG “share very serious characteristics: they announce acts against life and personal integrity and their content leads to the conclusion that the authors are aware of the movements and circumstances of the officials and have access to them, despite the protection schemes implemented by the State”; The measures adopted by the State have been insufficient to protect the life of the beneficiaries; There is a “pattern of exacerbation of the threats, and the access their authors have to make them against the FAFG officials”;

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