Order of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
of May 12, 2007
Request for Broadening of Provisional Measures regarding
Colombia
Case of the 19 Tradesmen
(Sandra Belinda Montero Fuentes and next of kin, Salomón
Flórez and next of kin, Luis José Pundor Quintero and next of
kin, Ana Diva Quintero Quintero de Pundor and next of kin,
Wilmar Rodríguez Quintero and next of kin, and Yimmy Efraín
Rodríguez Quintero and next of kin)
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The judgment on merits, reparations, and costs delivered by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American
Court”) on July 5, 2004, in the case of the 19 Tradesmen with regard to the State of
Colombia (hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”).
2.
The Order on provisional measures of the Inter-American Court of September
3, 2004, in which it decided, inter alia, “[t]o ratify the Order of the President of the
Court […] of July 30, 2004, in the terms set out in the fifteenth considering
paragraph of the Order, concerning the protection of Sandra Belinda Montero
Fuentes and her son, Juan Manuel Ayala Montero” and “[t]o require the State: (a) to
maintain the necessary measures to protect the rights to life and personal integrity
of Sandra Belinda Montero Fuentes and her son, Juan Manuel Ayala Montero; and (b)
to adopt, forthwith, all necessary measures to protect the rights to life and personal
integrity of the child, María Paola Casanova Montero, of 7 years of age, daughter of
Sandra Belinda Montero Fuentes”.
3.
The Order on provisional measures of the Inter-American Court of July 4,
2006, in which it was decided, inter alia, “[t]o ratify the Order of the President of the
Court […] of April 28, 2006, and, consequently, to require the State of Colombia to
maintain the measures it had adopted and to adopt, forthwith, the necessary
measures to protect the rights to life and personal integrity of Salomón Flórez
Contreras, Luis José Pundor Quintero and Ana Diva Quintero Quintero de Pundor,
and their respective families” and “[t]o reiterate to the State that it must adopt and
maintain the necessary measures to protect the rights to life and personal integrity
of Sandra Belinda Montero Fuentes and her children, Juan Manuel Ayala Montero and
María Paola Casanova Montero”.
4.
The brief of September 15, 2006, in which the State submitted its report on
the provisional measures pursuant to the fourth operative paragraph of the Order on