ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JUNE 4, 1995 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA CARPIO NICOLLE CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' (hereinafter "the Commission" or "the Inter-American Commission") June 1, 1995 brief, received at the Secretariat of the Court that same day, which requested that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter "the Court") grant provisional measures regarding the Jorge Carpio Nicolle Case (Nº 11.333), which is currently before the Commission. The request was based on Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Convention" or "the American Convention"), 24 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter "the Rules of Procedure") and 76 of the Regulations of the Commission, and is related to the situation described in its brief which constitutes "a prima facie case of urgent and grave danger to the lives and physical integrity of the witnesses" Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio, Karen Fischer de Carpio, Mario López-Arrivillaga and Angel Isidro Girón-Girón as well as Lic. Abraham Méndez-García, "Prosecutor of the process in the investigation of the death of Lic. Jorge Carpio-Nicolle;" 2. That on March 21, 1995, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a petition before the Commission with regard to the Jorge Carpio Nicolle Case Nº 11.333, which, since July 12, 1994, is being heard by Commission. This petition contains a request for provisional measures pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the Convention and 76 (sic) of the Regulations of the Commission and Article 23 (sic) of the Rules of Procedure, and is based on the facts and information provided by the Commission in its June 1, 1995 communication; 3. That according to the Commission's brief, Mr. Jorge Carpio-Nicolle, expresidential candidate of the UCN - Unión del Centro Nacional (National Center Union) and journalist, was murdered together with three other political leaders of that party on July 3, 1993, while they were traveling for work reasons in several departments of Guatemala, after having been intercepted by "a group of approximately 15 to 30 armed Civil Self-Defense Patrolmen," in the place known as "Molino del Tesoro," in the Municipality of Chichicastenango, El Quiché; 4. That the witnesses, Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio (widow of Jorge Carpio); Karen Fischer de Carpio (daughter-in-law of Jorge Carpio); Mario López-Arrivillaga (nephew of Marta de Carpio and former Congressman of the UCN Party), and Angel Isidro Girón-Girón, "to the murders mentioned in the foregoing point" were subjected to acts of harassment, intimidation, and threats against their lives and physical integrity;