Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of November 30, 2007 Provisional Measures regarding Venezuela Matter of Yare I and Yare Capital Region Penitentiary Center HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “InterAmerican Court”, the “Court” or the “Tribunal”) of March 30, 2006, whereby it was decided, inter alia: 1. [t]o order the State to immediately adopt such measures as may be required to efficiently and conclusively prevent violence at the Yare Prison, so that no inmate or any other person at said facility is killed or their personal integrity impaired[;] 2. [T]o order the State, notwithstanding the measures ordered in the preceding operative paragraph for immediate implementation, to adopt such measures as may be necessary to: a) confiscate weapons in the possession of inmates, b) separate indicted inmates from convicted inmates and c) conform the existing detention conditions to the applicable international standards. In this regard, the State is required to periodically monitor the conditions of confinement and the physical and emotional state of the inmates, with the participation of the representatives of the beneficiaries of these [...] provisional measures[;] 3. [t]o call upon the State to take all steps as may be necessary in order for the measures of protection ordered on behalf of the Yare Prison inmates to be devised and implemented with the participation of the representatives of the measures¡ beneficiaries and, in general, to keep them current on the progress made in their enforcement[;]: 4. [t]o call upon the State to provide the Court with an up-to-date list of all inmates confined at the prison, and to specify the characteristics of confinement for each person [and], 5. [t]o call upon the State to investigate the facts that led to the adoption of the provisional measures and, as the case may be to identify the perpetrators and punish them as applicable, including administrative and disciplinary penalties. […] 2. The notes submitted by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (hereinafter the “State” or “Venezuela”) on June 9, 2006, August 1, 2006, September 29, 2006, January 3, 2007, February 27, 2007, May 2, 2007, July 16, 2007, and September 5, 2007, whereby it informed, inter alia: a) In relation to the obligation to adopt such measures as may be required to efficiently and conclusively prevent violence at the Yare Prison, that: i. as from February, 2006, new prison guards have been incorporated; by September 2007, the safety conditions of the facility were temporarily provided by 21 internal male correction officers and 12 female officers;