ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JUNE 19, 1998 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA PANIAGUA MORALES ET AL. AND VÁSQUEZ ET AL. CASE (N. 11.448) HAVING SEEN: 1. The proceedings in the Paniagua Morales et al. Case, currently before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter "The Court" or the "InterAmerican Court"), and the transcription of the testimony rendered by Mr. Oscar Humberto Vásquez and Ms. Raquel de Jesús Solórzano at the public hearing on the merits of the aforementioned case held at the seat of the Court on September 22, 23 and 24, 1997. 2. The brief of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission" or "the Inter-American Commission") of February 5, 1998, in which it requested the Court, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Convention" or "the American Convention") and Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure (hereinafter "the Rules of Procedure"), to adopt "provisional measures to protect the lives and physical integrity of the members of the Vásquez family, including Oscar Humberto Vásquez, Raquel Solórzano, Thelma Judith de Vásquez, Marvin Vásquez and Lydia de Vásquez." The Commission pointed out that the request was made in relation to two cases: the Paniagua Morales et al . Case, currently being heard before the Court, and the Vásquez et al . case (No. 11.448), currently before the Commission. As the basis of its request, the Commission informed the Court that: [o]n January 24, 1998 Mr. Oscar Humberto Vásquez, son of Mr. Oscar Vásquez (victim in the White Van case) and witness who had testified before the Honourable Court in September 1997, had been unlawfully detained by a group of three unknown men who launched a severe physical attack on him and threatened to kill him. The Commission likewise informed the Court that the persons who deprived Mr. Vásquez of his liberty told him "to stop looking for problems if he did not wish to end up like his father and brother," who had been murdered five days before the last hearing held by the Commission on the Paniagua Morales et al. Case (September 11, 1994). According to the Commission, when Mr. Vásquez attempted to lodge a complaint concerning his detention and the attacks of which he had been victim, the Attorney-General's Office ("Ministerio Público") refused to receive it, "arguing that he should have gone immediately after the events occurred." 3. The declarations of the Inter-American Commission in its brief requesting provisional measures, whereby on December 13, 1994 it requested the State of Guatemala (hereinafter "the State" or "Guatemala") to adopt protective measures to safeguard the lives, personal safety and liberty of Oscar Ricardo Vásquez-Monroy,