irreparable damage to persons, so that that the Court may assess the need for the said
measures of protection. If, within six months from notification of the […] Order, the
requested information has not been presented, the Court will evaluate whether the
provisional measures should be lifted.
3.
To request the State to submit, by June 9, 2008, at the latest, a report on the
implementation of the provisional measures; in particular, detailed information on the risk
situation of each beneficiary, the protection measures provided to each of them, and the
current status and results of the investigations into the events that gave rise to the
measures. Following this report, the State must continue to report to the Inter-American
Court every two months on the provisional measures adopted. […]
5.
The Order issued by the then President of the Court on November 26, 2008, in
which she convened the Inter-American Commission, the Republic of Colombia
(hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”) and the representatives of the beneficiaries of
the provisional measures to a private hearing on compliance with the judgment
delivered in this case and on the implementation and effectiveness of the provisional
measures, as well as on the need to keep them in force.
6.
The arguments of the parties at the private hearing on these provisional
measures held at the seat of the Court during its eighty-second regular session on
January 19, 2009.1
7.
The Order issued by the Court on September 2, 2010, in which it decided:
1.
To maintain in force for six months the provisional measures of protection ordered by the
Court in the Order of June 27, 2005 […].
2.
To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the representatives of the
beneficiaries to present, by October 22, 2010, at the latest, information on the current risk of each
one of the beneficiaries and on the measures required to overcome the situation of risk that the
beneficiaries face. […].
3.
To require […] the State to present, by November 15, 2010, at the latest, a risk
assessment of the beneficiaries [...]. The said report should refer to the situation of risk that the
representatives and the Commission have advised […].
[…].
8.
The briefs of October 8, 2010, in which Hernan Paez Zapata and Luz Mery
Pinzon Lopez referred to alleged acts of harassment and threats against her.
9.
The briefs of November 17, 2010, and January 24, 2011, in which the State
presented information on the implementation of the provisional measures.
10.
The brief of November 25, 2010, in which the representatives of the
beneficiaries (hereinafter “the representatives”) presented information on the
implementation of the provisional measures, as well as on alleged facts that placed “at
1
The Court appointed a committee of Judges for the hearing composed of Judges Diego GarciaSayán, who presided; Manuel Ventura Robles and Margarette May Macaulay. The following persons
participated in the hearing, as members of the respective delegations: for the Inter-American Commission:
Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Deputy Executive Secretary; Juan Pablo Albán Alencastro, advisor and Lilly Ching
Soto, advisor; for the victims and beneficiaries: Eduardo Carreño Wilches and Rafael Barrios Mendivil, of the
Corporación Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo,” and Michael Camillieri and Francisco Quintana, of
the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL); for the State of Colombia: Ángela Margarita Rey,
Director, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Carlos Franco,
Director of the Presidential Human Rights Program; Colonel Juan Carlos Gómez, Director, Human Rights,
Ministry of National Defense; Juana Acosta López, Coordinator of the Inter-institutional Operational Group,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Generoso Hutchinson, Prosecutor of the Human Rights Unit of the Prosecutor
General’s Office; Diana Bravo R., Advisor to the Human Rights Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and
General Jorge Rodríguez, Head of the Joint Institutional Defense Office of the Military Forces Command.
2