2 2. To request the Government of Guatemala to adopt all necessary measures to ensure that the aforementioned persons may continue to reside at or return to their homes in Colotenango, providing them the assurances that they shall not be persecuted or threatened by agents of the Government or by individuals. 3. To request the Government of Guatemala to guarantee to Attorney Patricia Ispanel-Medimilla the right to exercise her profession without being subjected to undue pressures. 4. To request the Government of Guatemala to inform the Court no later than August 31, 1994, regarding the measures it has adopted to comply with this order. 5. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit the documents mentioned in the previous paragraph to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The latter shall have until October 7, 1994 to submit its observations thereon. 6. To summon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Government of Guatemala to the public hearing on this case, to be held at the seat of the Court at 15:00 hours on November 28, 1994. This decision was notified to the Commission and to the Government. 4. On August 31, 1994, the Government of Guatemala informed the Court in writing regarding the measures that were adopted, in compliance with operative point 4 of the above decision. The information included a report from the Presidential Committee to Coordinate the Executive's Policy on Human Rights and a document drawn up at the Office of the Governor of the Department of Huehuetenango. In the above mentioned report, the Government states the following: We assure the President that his decision has been accorded its full weight and importance. As a result, the Government has reiterated the orders issued to the authorities, requiring them to: a) provide concrete and specific protection to the persons listed, allowing them to personally and freely specify the type of protection they require; b) proceed with the arrests ordered by the courts investigating the events relating to consolidated case Nº 11.212; c) the Government Attorney's Office has likewise been requested to take all measures necessary to expedite and improve the effectiveness of the investigation in order to punish the actors already identified. ... In compliance with Your Excellency's decision, the Government of Guatemala has tightened security measures in the area of Colotenango, in order to afford better protection to its inhabitants. 5. Pursuant to point 5 of the Court's decision, the Secretariat of the Court transmitted the information received from the Government to the Inter-American Commission and granted the latter until October 7, 1994 to present its observations. On October 6, 1994, the Commission submitted its observations and requested that the measures ordered be maintained and expanded to include protection of Mrs. Francisca Sales-Martín, and that "the civil defense patrols (currently the Voluntary Civil Defense Committees) be disarmed and demobilized and that that decision be made public in order to restore calm to the population." The Commission also requested that the Government be required "to use all legal means necessary for compliance and to report to that Honorable Court as soon as possible on the steps taken and their results." 6. On November 28, 1994, a public hearing was held at the seat of the Court in San José, Costa Rica, to hear the arguments of the Commission and the Government of Guatemala in this matter.