-3time 10:12. According to the representatives, “Mr. Billy Joya was one of the leaders of Battalion 3-16 ,
which […] was a military body responsible for grave human rights violations committed during the ‘80s
in Honduras, specially acts of torture and forced disappearances and in addition, this battalion is
responsible for the forced disappearance of Mrs. Lanza’s partner;”
o)
On July 23, 2010, the representatives of the beneficiary presented a brief whereby they indicated
that the precautionary measures were never implemented, despite the existence of an agreement
regarding the implementation of the protective measures of October 5, 2009, and that Mrs. Lanza
continued being the target of threats and other acts of persecution. This had forced her to "keep a low
profile regarding her defense work, as well as to adopt other provisional alternative measures to
safeguard her life;”
q)
On July 23, 2010, Mrs. Lanza Ochoa filed a complaint before the Office of the Public Prosecutor of
Honduras;
r)
On August 5, 2010, the State indicated before the Commission that a meeting was held on July
30 in which it was “agreed to conduct daily patrols, on car or motorbikes, at her work center ‘Visitación
Padilla’ and at her house;" the State furnished a list with contact information so that "there is a fluid
communication and immediate help can be provided in case of emergency, complaint or when the
beneficiaries deem appropriate;" it was decided the conduct of daily meetings and the State undertook
to give priority to the investigation into the facts;
t)
On August 12, 2010, the representatives informed the Commission that the commitments
undertaken by the State have not been implemented. They further alleged that on July 30 and August
8, 2010, when the sister of a member of Comité por la Paz Visitación Padilla was arriving at the
premises, she would have received the same kind of telephone calls, made from the same telephone
number from which it would come the phone calls Mrs. Lanza received. In addition, they pointed out that
on August 8, 2010, a taxi driver, a person of trust of the beneficiary, was shot, after a car accident in
which he run into a police car; that a police official from the institutions that participated in the meeting
of October 5, 2009, would have shot him.
v)
On August 17, 2010, the representatives indicated that the agreements reached in the meetings
with the state authorities “are not been complied with,” that the beneficiary continues receiving threats
against her life and personal integrity and that there is no investigation being conducted regarding the
facts that gave rise to the adoption of the precautionary measures. They pointed out that on August 12,
2010, unknown individuals “fired gunshots in front of the house of the Coordinator of the Campaign
against Femicides which the Committee promotes" and that, according to one of her children who was
arriving home at that precise moment, somebody pointed a gun at him. He run in his car and was
followed by a motorbike, though “he managed to escape.” Before this situation, several police patrols
showed up at her residence when those persons were still there who later on “allegedly identified
themselves as police officials who were investigating a robbery;”
e)
On August 17, 2010, the representatives informed the Commission that before the "absolute lack
of implementation of the measures", it was necessary to request the Court to adopt the following
provisional measures:
i. To install a system of closed-circuit television at the offices of the Comité por la Paz
Visitación Padilla and at the beneficiary’s home to allow permanent surveillance in both
places. This system should be monitored by people appointed by the beneficiary and
should have resources to respond in case of emergency.
ii. To pay for personal security services to accompany the beneficiary in her transfers and
meetings from her home and from her place of work, this will be exclusively hired by Mrs.
Lanza.
iii. To appoint an investigator to conduct a serious and effective investigation into all the
facts that gave rise to the protective measures.
iii. To coordinate with the beneficiary and her representatives the provisional measures to
be implemented.
3.
The arguments of the Commission to base its request for provisional measures, among
other arguments:
a)
That the gravity of the acts of harassment to which Mrs. Gladys Lanza was subjected, presumably
originates from retaliation for her work to promote and protect human rights as Coordinator of the
"Comité por la Paz Visitación Padilla”. During the enforcement of the precautionary measures ordered by
the Commission and despite them, the beneficiary continued being subjected to acts of harassment, which