3 10. The January 27, 2003 note by the Secretariat in which it asked the Commission to submit the object of the requested testimony no later than the 29th of that month, with the aim of submitting said information to the President of the Court, and the January 30, 2003 brief by the Commission in which it submitted the object of the requested testimony. 11. The January 31, 2003 brief by the Secretariat of the Court in which, under instructions by its President, it forwarded to the State the offer of the witness made by the Commission (supra Having Seen 9) for it to submit its observations with respect to said offer, and the February 5, 2003 brief by the Venezuelan State in which it said that “the Venezuelan State has no objection to [the witnesses proposed by the Commission] being heard at the time the public hearing is held.” 12. The February 6, 2003 Order of the President of the Court, in which he decided: 1. To summon the representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and of the State of Venezuela to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Inter-American Court, commencing at 10:30 hours on February 17, 2003, to hear the testimony of the witnesses summoned and for the Court to hear their viewpoints on the facts and circumstances pertaining to implementation of the Provisional Measures in the cases of Liliana Ortega et al., Luis Uzcátegui, and Luisiana Ríos et al. 2. To summon Liliana Ortega to appear before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, commencing at 10:30 hours on February 17, 2003, to testify on “non-compliance by the State with the Provisional Measures [and on] lack of investigation, lack of police protection in favor of COFAVIC, the sporadic nature of police protection for [her] and threats received since the Provisional Measures were granted.” […] 13. The public hearing on the instant Provisional Measures held at the seat of the Inter-American Court on February 17, 2003, at which there appeared: For the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Eduardo Bertoni, delegate; Carlos Ayala, assistant, and Juan Carlos Gutiérrez (assistant) For the State of Venezuela: Jorge Dugarte Contreras, agent, and Gisela Aranda, assistant. 14. The testimony of Liliana Ortega, submitted at the public hearing, and summarized as follows: a) She is a Venezuelan national, a resident of Caracas city, an attorney, a professor, and the Executive Director of COFAVIC, which is “an organization that began its work in the wake of the Caracazo events in 1989; with its work it has documented more than 280 investigations on human rights violations in Venezuela, it litigates cases before the inter-American human rights system, and it also conducts preventive tasks by sensitizing public opinion and developing awareness among organized forms and sectors of Venezuelan civil society.”