ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 27, 1998 PROVISIONAL MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA CARPIO NICOLLE CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”) of September 19, 1997, in which it decided: 1. To require the State to include in its next report reliable documentation on the status of case No. 1011-97 and on specific progress made with the investigations into the threats and acts of intimidation denounced. 2. To call upon the State to continue to report to the Court every two months from the date of notification of this order, on the measures it has taken in this case, and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to continue to submit to the Court its observations on that information, within six weeks of receipt thereof. 2. The order of the Court of June 19, 1998, in which it decided: [...] 2. To maintain the provisional measures adopted by the Court on September 19, 1995, in favor or Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio and Karen Fischer de Carpio. 3. To call once more upon the State of Guatemala to include in its next report reliable documentation on the status of case No. 1011-97 and on specific progress made with the investigations into the threats and intimidation denounced. 3. The twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh reports of the State of Guatemala (hereinafter “the State”) in which it reported on the measures of protection adopted with regard to the beneficiaries of the measures, in the terms summarized by the Courts as follows: a) With regard to Marta Elena Arrivillaga, the State declared that two agents of the National Civil Police provide permanent personal security; that agents of the National Civil Police are assigned to the task of protecting her in her office and that a patrol car of the National Civil Police patrols the sectors around her residence. b) With regard to Karen Fischer de Carpio, the State indicated that she is protected by an agent from the Finance Ministry Police Unit and also by “perimetric security”, provided by police patrol car units of the National Civil Police. Furthermore, the State declared that Karen Fischer de Carpio had proposed a person who the State might assign to the task of protecting her. In these reports, the State made no reference to the status of case No. 1011-97 or to progress with the investigation into the threats and acts of intimidation denounced.