ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUGUST 26, 2002 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REGARDING THE REPUBLIC OF COSTA RICA “LA NACIÓN” NEWSPAPER CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The facts stated in the “Having seen” paragraphs of the December 6, 2001 Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”). 2. The September 7, 2001 Order of the Court, in which it decided: 1. To order the State of Costa Rica to adopt forthwith those measures necessary to suspend the entry of Mauricio Herrera Ulloa’s name in the Judiciary’s Record of Convicted Felons until such time as the bodies of the inter-American system for the protection of human rights have arrived at a final decision on his case. 2. To order the State of Costa Rica to suspend the order for La Nación to publish the “Therefore” portion of the conviction handed down by the San José First Circuit Criminal Trial Court on November 12, 1999, and to suspend the order to create a “link” at the La Nación Digital website between the disputed articles and the operative part of that court ruling. 3. To order the State of Costa Rica to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within 30 days of notification of this Order, of the measures it has taken pursuant to the order, and to call upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its observations on that report within 30 days of receiving it. 3. The brief filed on July 30, 2002, in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Costa Rica (hereinafter “the State” or “Costa Rica”) forwarded the rogatory letter issued on June 27, 2002 by the Examining Justice of the Criminal Court of the First Judicial Circuit of San José. According to the letter rogatory, on June 17, 2002 the Trial Court of the First Judicial Circuit of San José ordered that the InterAmerican Court be consulted about “whether the Provisional Measures adopted then in the case of the daily ‘La Nación’ refer [to] the whole judgment, both criminal and civil, or whether they refer only to the criminal judgment.” CONSIDERING: 1. Costa Rica has been a State Party to the American Convention since April 8, 1970, and it accepted binding jurisdiction of the Court on July 2, 1980. 2. Article 63(2) of the Convention stipules that: