ORDER OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS1
OF JULY 4, 2006
PROVISIONAL MEASURES REGARDING COLOMBIA
CASE OF 19 TRADESMEN
(SANDRA BELINDA MONTERO-FUENTES AND NEXT OF KIN,
SALOMÓN FLÓREZ AND NEXT OF KIN, LUIS JOSÉ PUNDORQUINTERO AND NEXT OF KIN, ANA DIVA QUINTERO-QUINTERO
DE PUNDOR AND NEXT OF KIN)
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The Judgment on the merits, reparations and costs rendered by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Court” or
“the Tribunal”) on July 5, 2004 in the Case of 19 Tradesmen against the State
of Colombia (hereinafter, “the State” or “Colombia”).
2.
The Order issued by the Inter-American Court on September 3, 2004,
whereby, inter alia, it decided to “[r]atify the Order of the President of the
Court [(hereinafter, “the President”)] of July 30, 2004, regarding the
protection of Sandra Belinda Montero-Fuentes and her son Juan Manuel AyalaMontero, as spelled out in Considering clause number fifteen of the […]
Order,” while calling upon the State to: a) keep the necessary measures in
place to protect the rights to life and humane treatment of Sandra Belinda
Montero-Fuentes and her son Juan Manuel Ayala-Montero; and b)
immediately adopt such measures as may be required in order to protect the
rights to life and humane treatment of María Paola Casanova-Montero, a
seven-year old minor and the daughter of Sandra Belinda Montero-Fuentes.
3.
The brief dated April 17, 2006, whereby the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas
(Colombian Jurists Commission) (hereinafter, “the representatives of the victims and
their next of kin” or “the representatives”) filed with the Inter-American Court,
pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter,
“the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and Article 25 of the Rules of
Procedure of the Court (hereinafter, “the Rules of Procedure”), a request for
1
Judge Oliver Jackman did not take part in the deliberations on and signing of this Order, since he
advised the Court that, for reasons beyond his control, he would be unable to attend the LXXI Regular
Session of the Court.