10 there was also an agent to protect the offices of COFAVIC, from Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.” 30. The brief of October 3, 2003, and its attachments, in which the Commission presented its comments on the fifth report of the State, among which, it indicated: a) Regarding the investigation of the facts, the State did not submit any information on the status of the investigations into the facts that gave rise to the provisional measures. Furthermore, the beneficiaries of the measures continue not to have access to the file, because it is “confidential.” Also, the Office of the Attorney General insisted on inspecting the COFAVIC computers, a request that was agreed to, provided the inspection was carried out by “independent international experts who enjoy[ed] the confidence of the victims”; b) Regarding the measures of protection, the members of COFAVIC continued to receive threats and harassment. Maritza Romero, Hilda (Gilda) Páez, Aura Liscano (Lizcano), Alicia González and Carmen Alicia Mendoza were not receiving permanent measures of protection. The protection measure for the COFAVIC offices was only in place from Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. and from 1.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m., when working hours were really from 8.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Likewise, COFAVIC did not have minimum security mechanisms to detect metals or firearms and the protection official did not have an appropriate weapon “to guarantee the minimum protection required.” “Given the increase in the threats […], COFAVIC was obliged to close its offices on three occasion during July, August and September for fear of receiving direct attacks”; and c) Regarding the participation of the petitioners in the planning and implementation of the measures, on November 19, 2002, COFAVIC communicated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to decide on the type of protection they had requested. On July 10, 2003, it requested an audience with the Ministry of the Interior and Justice. It received no reply to either communication, so it requested that the measures of protection should be taken with the consent of the person to be protected. 31. The communication of the State of October 14, 2003, advising that the State’s Agent, Jorge Duarte Contreras, “ha[d] decided to withdraw from this position definitively.” 32. The communication of October 30, 2003, in which the State appointed Fermín Toro as Agent before the international human rights organizations. CONSIDERING: 1. That the State ratified the American Convention on August 9, 1977, and, pursuant to Article 62 thereof, accepted the obligatory jurisdiction of the Court on June 24, 1981. 2. That Article 63(2) of the American Convention provides that, “[i]n cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court shall adopt such provisional measures as it deems pertinent in