the Commission and the representatives have not presented recent specific detailed
information on the existence of new acts of harassment or threats against them, apart
from those that were on record when the last Order was issued on September 2, 2010.
6.
In this regard, the State indicated that it had not received specific requests for
protection from the beneficiaries or their representatives and that it is unaware of their
location. The State repeated its request to lift the provisional measures.
1.2. Situation of Viviana Barrera
7.
The representatives stated that a bus owned by the beneficiary had been set on
fire in bizarre circumstances and that she had continued to receive strange or
threatening telephone calls.
8.
The State indicated that, even though the representatives declared that they
had reported this fact to the Prosecutor General’s Office, they had not provided
information about the complaint filed or additional information in this regard.
Moreover, the State mentioned that, even though the representatives had announced
that Viviana Barrera would be in Bogota by the end of October and that she would
advise whether she would like to submit to another assessment of her risk and level of
threat, it was unaware of her location or of her intention to undergo a further
assessment.
9.
The Commission emphasized that Viviana Barrera had stated that she continued
to receive telephone calls that could fall within the context of the previous acts of
intimidation and threats.
1.3. Situation of Sara Paola Pinzón López, Luz Mery Pinzón López and their
next of kin
10.
The representatives advised that, in August 2010, strange events had occurred
owing to the presence of unknown individuals in the home of Luz Mery and Sara Paola
Pinzon in Villavicencio.
11.
The State asserted that the petitioners had only referred to the specific
situation of the beneficiaries Luz Mery Pinzon and Sara Paola Pinzon. The State also
indicated that, since no information had been provided regarding the beneficiaries
Esther Pinzon Lopez and Maria Teresa Pinzon Lopez, who are members of the same
family group, the State assumed that no situations of risk had taken place that might
affect their life and personal integrity.
12.
Regarding alleged acts of harassment against Luz Mery Pinzon by a former
official of the Ombudsman’s Office, on September 29, 2010, she advised the Court that
“the lawyer Hernan Zapata Paez ha[d] never harassed or threatened her, or forced her
to receive advisory services, [and that,] on the contrary, [he had been] kind and
respectful of [her] decision, because, at the end of the meeting [… she ] told him that
[she] was not interested and [had] not received any more telephone calls from him. In
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