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measures, such as: Two satellite phones, which would allow the members of the
OPIT to communicate before possible threats; ii) a system of sensory lighting to be
installed outside the house of the beneficiaries, which is also the headquarters of
OPIT, apart from a system of interphone or bell with a camera; iii) police patrolling
that will pass in front of the beneficiaries’ house at least, twice a week and iv) the
investigation into the threats committed against the beneficiaries. In response, the
State would have stated it had no resources to provide the telephonic equipments;
that it undertook to conduct a police patrolling every week by means of the
Preventive Federal Police and that it would consult the possibility for the state
preventive police to conduct another weekly round; that it would request the set of
sensory lights and the interphone or bell with a camera to the Secretary of Public
Security of Guerrero and that it would make an appointment with the Delegate of the
Attorney General's Office of Guerrero in order to present the respective complaint. As
a consequence, the State started to patrolling once a week, but this was later on
suspended; after the complaint made by the beneficiaries, preliminary inquiries were
conducted regarding the threats committed against them and up to date, there is no
information about the progress of said proceedings; the set of sensory lights and bell
requested have been delivered, but the operation of the camera was defective since
the monitor did not show very clear images. Then, the bell and the lights broke down
and the State refused to repair them on the ground that it had already complied with
the obligation to provide them and that it was up to the beneficiaries fix it; the State
did not provide new equiptments.
b) In the meeting held on October 4, 2007 within the framework of the precautionary
measures MC 167-07 ordered in favor of Inés Fernández Ortega and her next-of-kin,
the State undertook to deliver five radio communication equipments to the
beneficiaries and to expedite the investigations conducted in relation to the threats
and attacks suffered by Fortunato Prisciliano Sierra. The commitment to provide the
communication equiptments was repeated by the State in the meeting held on July
22, 2008 within the framework of the expansion of the precautionary measures MC
06-05 ordered in favor of the members of the OPIT. The beneficiaries are still waiting
for the equiptments. In the last meeting mentioned, the State also undertook to
remove the investigations into the acts committed against members of the OPIT,
even the murder of Lorenzo Fernández Ortega, from the Office of the Public
Prosecutor of the Judicial District of Allende to the competent organs of the Attorney
General’s Office of the state of Guerrero. Nevertheless, up to the present, there is no
information about the measures adopted by the State to implement the removal of
the proceedings and no progress has been made in such proceedings. Regarding the
investigations into the threats and attacks committed against Inés Fernández Ortega
and Fortunato Prisciliano Sierra, despite the fact the two perpetrators have been
identified and that a criminal action for such crimes has been instituted, the accused
remain free and there is no information on the progress of the proceeding. In
addition, one of the accused continue committing acts of harassment against Obtilia
Eugenio Manuel, and
c) In the meeting held by the State on April 16, 2009, after the urgent measures
ordered by the President’s Tribunal, the proposals of the beneficiaries were not
considered. The representatives of the State asserted that they were unable to enter
into an agreement due to the absence of the officers who could give a response to
the problems put forward by the beneficiaries. There was no answer either as to the
progress of the investigations into the facts that gave rise to the instant measures.
The Mexican State has unilaterally decided to postpone the implementation of the
measures until the next meeting, in spite of the fact that such attitude, considering