3 with several proposals for their protection. They accepted the Government's proposal to provide persons for their individual protection, on the condition that each person to be protected designate his or her own security agents and that the Government assume the cost. These conditions were accepted by the Deputy Minister of the Interior. Despite their refusal to continue receiving protection from agents of the National Police, the Deputy Minister of the Interior ordered that patrols be maintained in the neighborhood of the offices of the newspaper "El Gráfico" and at the residence of Mrs. Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio, widow of Carpio-Nicolle. The Government also announced that Mr. Mario López-Arrivillaga, nephew of Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio and former member of parliament of the UCN party, has a National Police security agent at his service and that Mrs. Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio has two security agents from the National Police since before the instatement of the present provisional measures. As to Mr. Ángel Isidro Girón-Girón, the report stated that he works with the Treasury Police in the Department of Totonicapan, but the Report did not specify on the measures that had been taken by the Government for his security. 7. In this second report the Government also revealed that on July 14, 1995 in compliance with the President's request, it had asked the Minister of National Defense to circulate precise orders to the authorities of Military Zone Number 20, based in Santa Cruz del Quiché, El Quiché, to instruct the Voluntary Civil Defense Committees of San Pedro Jocopilas to refrain from taking any actions that would put at risk the life or personal integrity of any one of the persons for whom provisional measures had been adopted. 8. On September 1, 1995 the Government sent the Court a copy of the third report in which it stated that the provisional measures taken on behalf of Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio, Karen Fischer de Carpio, Mario López-Arrivillaga, Ángel Isidro Girón-Girón and Abraham Méndez-García continued in force and that those individuals had forwarded the names of the persons they wanted assigned to guard their personal safety. Subsequently the Minister of the Interior proceeded to contract the guards who had been designated. According to this report, Mrs. Marta Elena Arrivillaga de Carpio and Mrs. Karen Fisher de Carpio each have four persons assigned to their security and Mr. Abraham Méndez has been assigned two persons. Mr. Mario López-Arrivillaga refused the allocation of additional persons for his security. The Ministry of the Interior was awaiting the list of names of the persons who would be responsible for the security of Mrs. Lorraine Maric Fischer-Pivaral. In relation to the incident which befell Mrs. Fischer-Pivaral on July 7, 1995, giving rise to the expansion of provisional measures, the Government announced that the State Attorney General had initiated an investigation to which he assigned Prosecutor Alfonso Palacios. This report did not specify the security measures that the State had afforded to Mr. Ángel Isidro Girón-Girón. 9. The public hearing took place on September 16, 1995 at the seat of the Court. There appeared: For the Government of Guatemala: Vicente Arranz-Sanz, President of COPREDEH, Angel Comte-Cojulún, Director General of the National Police, Dennis Alonzo-Mazariegos, Executive Director of COPREDEH,