12. The Commission’s request for provisional measures is based on three main points: i) the alleged existence of a context of intimidation, threats, and persecution against journalists following the coup d’état in Honduras; ii) alleged threats to the life and integrity of Mr. Galdámez Álvarez, his partner, and his children; and iii) lack of information regarding the investigations carried out by the authorities in order to bring the events to light. 13. Regarding this, the Court finds that the analysis of the facts and of the arguments of the Commission regarding points i and iii – as indicated in the prior paragraph – belong in the analysis of a potential contentious case. The Court has already noted that a ruling on the merits is to be issued as part of a contentious proceeding before the Court and not during proceedings on provisional measures.8 Additionally, the Court considers that those allegations do not satisfy the requirements for the adoption of provisional measures, in accordance with Article 63(2) of the Convention. 14. Consequently, the Court will not take those allegations into account, as it may not consider elements directly linked with the merits of the case, as mentioned previously. b) The existence of alleged threats to and attacks on the right to life and personal integrity 15. The Inter-American Commission has also based its request for provisional measures on the alleged existence of threats, harassment, and attacks against the life and personal integrity of Mr. Galdámez Álvarez, his partner, and his children, who, since July 2009, have supposedly received threats, including death threats, on several occasions and have been subjected to attacks and persecution (supra Having Seen 2.f). 16. The Court observes that according to the information offered by the Commission, which has not been contested by the State, in August 2009 Mr. Galdámez Álvarez started to receive text messages on his cellular phone with death threats, allegedly as a consequence of his visit to the former president of Honduras during his stay in Nicaragua and because of the news reports he did for Radio Globo during that visit. Likewise, at the beginning of September of 2009, two unknown persons approached two of Mr. Galdámez Álvarez’s sons with a gun, telling them to tell their father to “shut up.” During the period when Mr. Galdámez Álvarez was in the Brazilian Embassy reporting on the arrival of the former president of Honduras, beginning on 21 September 2009, he apparently received phone calls from blocked numbers which repeated the warning that he should “shut up or die.” Since Mr. Galdámez left the Brazilian Embassy on December 21, 2009, two vehicles began following him, one of which also surveilled his house. 17. According to the information submitted by the Inter-American Commission, during 2010, Mr. Galdámez received numerous text messages, insults, and threats from known telephone numbers. The Inter-American Commission did not provide the exact dates on which those messages were received. Nevertheless, the State has not contested this information. The Commission indicated that the day after the death of the journalist David Meza on 11 March 2010, Mr. Galdámez Álvarez received a message that said that he was “next.” On September 14, 2010, after finishing his news show on Canal Globo, 8 Cf. Case of James et al., supra footnote 5, Considering 6; Matter of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 2, 2010, Considering 7, and Matter of the Colombian Commission of Jurists. Provisional Measures regarding Colombia. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of November 25, 2010, Considering 10. 12