2 3. To submit this order for the consideration of the Court during its next session for the pertinent effects. 4. To submit the first report of the State and the Commission's briefs from the Commission of July 7, 1997, and August 12, 1997, for the consideration of the Court at its next session for the pertinent effects. 5. To request the State of Colombia to include the provisional measures taken pursuant to this Order in the reports it will submit every two months in accordance with the order of July 22, 1997, to bring them to the attention of the Court. 3. The Order of the Court of November 11, 1997, in which it decided: 1. To ratify the orders of the President of the Inter-American Court of July 22 and August 14, 1997. 2. To require the State of Colombia to maintain the necessary measures for a period of six months from the date of this Order so as to protect the lives and physical integrity of José Daniel Álvarez, Nidia Linores Ascanio, Gladys López, Yanette Bautista, María Helena Saldarriaga, Piedad Martín, María Eugenia López, Adriana Diosa, Astrid Manrique, Faride Ascanio, Carmen Barrera, Evidalia Chacón, José Publio Bautista, Nelly María Ascanio, Ayda Mile Ascanio, Miriam Rosas Ascanio, Erik Antonio Arellano-Bautista, and Javier Alvarez and to avoid irreparable damage to them. Once the term has expired, the Court shall assess the situation of the protected persons. 3. To require that the State of Colombia adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Mr. Erik Antonio Arellano-Bautista as soon as he returns to its territory. 4. To require that the State of Colombia investigate the events denounced and punish those responsible for them, especially with regard to the attack of June 24, 1997, on the offices of the Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Colombia (ASFADDES) in the city of Medellín. 5. To require that the State of Colombia maintain the measures necessary to ensure that all the offices of the Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Person of Colombia (ASFADDES) can discharge its duties without danger to the lives and physical integrity of the persons working there, especially at the Association's offices in the cities of Medellín and Ocaña. 6. To require that the State of Colombia continue to report every two months on the measures it has taken to comply with this order. 7. To require that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights submit its comments on that information to the Court at least six week from the date of its receipt. 4. The December 16, 1997, brief and attachments of the State of Colombia (hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”) in which it presented a synthesis of the actions taken in regards to the design of individual, preventive and office protection measures. 5. The December 17, 1997, brief of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”) submitted to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) on December 22, 1997, in which it requests that the provisional measures adopted by the Court be expanded to protect Ms. María Eugenia Cárdenas and her family, a member of the Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared persons of Colombia (hereinafter “ASFADDES”). According to the Commission, Ms. María Eugenia Cárdenas “has been the object of threats and persecution in the last few months.” Her cousin, José María Cárdenas, was kidnapped in the Department of Caldas by two armed men wearing Army uniforms. The next day, December 3, 1997, his severely mutilated body was found.