2 Colosio Prisciliano Fernández, based on the ground that Inés Fernández and her husband had been threatened, on several occasions, by informants of the Army in order to impede the search for justice in the case before the Commission. Furthermore, on June 27, 2008, the Commission expanded the precautionary measures MC 6-05 in favor of another 41 members of the OPIT,1 after the extralegal execution of Lorenzo Fernández Ortega due to his activism and participation in said organization and for being the brother of Inés Fernández Ortega. The Commission requested the Mexican State to adopt the necessary measures to preserve the life and physical integrity of the beneficiaries and to inform on the actions taken to investigate into the facts that gave rise to the adoption and expansion of the precautionary measures. According to what the Commission informed during the enforcement of said measures and in spite of them, the beneficiaries continued receiving threats against their lives and physical integrities and were subjected to harassment acts, which had increased in the last months; b) As a preliminary matter, the Commission indicated that México has been increasing the presence of the Army in indigenous territories since 1994. Said situation would has caused tension and problems with the civil population and complaints about several human rights violations of the indigenous people in the state of Guerrero committed by municipal authorities or members of the police or the army. In said context, the OPIT and the Organización para el Futuro de los Pueblos Mixtecos (hereinafter, "OFPM”) [Organization for the Future of Mixteco Peoples] were formed in the county town of Ayutla de los Libres, in order to defend the rights of the indigenous people of the area. Moreover, Tlachinollan has been with the indigenous people of Guerrero, helping in the fight for justice and respect for human rights for 14 years. These organizations carry out joint activities very frequently. According to the Commission, the facts that gave rise to the request for provisional measures would have taken place in the State of Guerrero and the potential beneficiaries of the provisional measures are, most of them, Me’ Phaa (tlapanecos) and Na Savi (mixteco) indigenous people; all of them related to the OPIT, the OFPM and Tlachinollan; c) In this context, defender Obtilia Eugenio Manuel has been subjected to constant and direct harassment acts and threats against her life and physical integrity; these acts had increased in the last months, particularly between January 19 and March 20, 2009. In this sense, she received death threats by means of messages and telephone calls, she was followed by different vehicles driven by persons who appeared to be military officers; she heard gunshots on one occasion and she received warnings by state officials in relation to her safety and her role in the defense of human rights. Due to these facts, she was forced to leave Ayutla de los Libres and restrict her work as defender of the Tlapaneco indigenous people; 1 Victoriano Eugenio Manuel, Gabino Eugenio Manuel, Juan Remigio Guzmán, Raúl Hernández Abundio, Rafael Rodríguez Dircio, Severo Eugenio Remigio, Manuel Cruz Victoriano, Orlando Manzanares Lorenzo, Natalio Ortega Cruz, Romualdo Santiago Enedina, Braulio Manzanares Lorenzo, José Eugenio Cruz, Félix Ortega Dolores, Merced Santiago Lorenzo, Arturo Cruz Ortega, Leopoldo Eugenio Manuel, Ubaldo Santiago Eugenio, Arnulfo Cruz Concepción, Silverio Remigio Guzmán, Crisóforo Manzanares Lorenzo, Taurino Fernández Santiago, Ocotlán Fernández Ortega, Mauricio Cruz Morales, Viviano García Santiago, Julio Bolanos Santiago, José Espinoza Eugenio, Ramón Ortega Cruz, Virgilio Cruz Ortega, Victoriano Ortega Cruz, Marcelino Santiago Flores, Justino García Santiago, Crispín Santiago González, Natalio Eugenio Catarino, Fausto Santiago González, Leopoldo Eugenio Rufina, Vicente Díaz Luciano, Socimo Manuel Sierra, Santiago Manuel Sierra, Ramiro Flor Cresencio, Milenio Flores de Jesús and Romualdo Eugenio Estrada.

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