To [submit a] full report on the security measures implemented to guarantee the safety and
the life of the Lawyer Luis Roberto Romero Rivera, as well as [on] the progress made in the
investigation to find those responsible for the death threats.
5.
The note of July 27, 2011, in which the Secretariat of the Court, following the
instructions of the President and pursuant to Article 27(5) of the Court’s Rules of
Procedure, asked the State to submit any observations deemed pertinent regarding the
request for provisional measures, no later than August 7,2011.
6.
The brief of August 3, 2011, in which the State submitted its observations to the
request for provisional measures. In its observations, Guatemala asked the Court to
declare inadmissible the request for provisional measures, but also offered to provide
“national protection to Mr. Luis Roberto Romero Rivera, with his prior consent and
subject to the respective risk assessment, with mechanisms to guarantee the life,
physical integrity and security of the petitioner.”
7.
The notes of August 5, 2011, in which the Secretariat of the Court, following the
instructions of the President and in accordance with Article 27(5) of the Court’s Rules of
Procedure, granted the representatives and the State a period until August 22, 2011 to
inform the Court whether Mr. Romero Rivera had agreed to the protection proposed by
the State (supra Having Seen 6) and, if so, to indicate the results of the risk assessment
and the security system offered. The Secretariat also required the representatives to
present certain additional information. Furthermore, in these notes it indicated that,
once that information was available, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
(hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) would be granted a
period to submit any observations considered pertinent.
8.
The brief of August 22, 2011, in which the State submitted the information
required by the President of the Court though the note of the Secretariat of August 5,
2011 (supra Having Seen 7).
9.
The brief of August 22, 2011 and its attachments, in which the representatives
provided the additional information required by the President of the Court, through the
note of the Secretariat of August 5, 2011 (supra Having Seen 7).
10.
The note of August 24, 2011, in which the Secretariat of the Court, following the
instructions of the President, and in accordance with Article 27(5) of the Court’s Rules of
Procedure, asked the representatives to submit, no later than August 26, 2011, their
observations to the State’s report of August 22, 2011 and, in particular, to inform the
Court whether Mr. Romero Rivera had agreed to the protection plan offered by
Guatemala.
11.
The note of the Secretariat of the Court of August 24, 2011, in which, following
the instructions of the President of the Court and pursuant to Article 27(5) of the Court’s
Rules of Procedure, the Inter-American Commission was granted a period until August
30, 2011 to submit any observations deemed pertinent in relation to the request for
provisional measures and to refer to the comments made by the representatives in
their brief of August 22, 2011, regarding a supposed request for precautionary measures
presented before the Inter-American Commission in favor of Mr. Luis Roberto Romero
Rivera and six other people, and its connection with this request for provisional
measures before the Inter-American Court. As of the date of issuing this Order, the
Commission had not presented the observations requested.
12.
The brief of August 25, 2011, in which the representatives of the alleged victims
submitted their observations to the State’s report of August 22, 2011 and provided the
information required by the President of the Court, in the note of the Secretariat of
August 24, 2011 (supra Having Seen 10).
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