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d)
on September 22, 2009, Ms. Rubis Borjas, Ms. Marisol Montenegro and Ms.
Laura Liscano, next of kin of the victims of the Caracazo, “received various calls to their
cell phones from the alleged employees belonging to the Laboratory of Genetic
Identification of the Body of Scientific, Criminal and Criminalist Investigations […] with
the goal that they appear before the Laboratory […] to have samples of [DNA] taken[,
nevertheless the] presumed employee that had made the reiterated calls had not
wanted to full identify him/herself […] and neither would agree to issue the information
in writing.” The same day, Ms. Fresia Ipinza, Director of the Civil Anticorruption
Association Organized Popular Demand, “strongly reprimanded the victims grouped in
COFAVIC accusing them of conspiracy, murderers and coup supporters;”
e)
on November 27, 2009, it was indicated in the newspaper, the Orinoco Post, that
Liliana Ortega and COFAVIC “received subvention from at least 30 powerful world
institutions, […but] they cheat by saying that the section that must be informed of its
financing is under construction.” On November 4, in the same newspaper, an article
titled “Tourism of Human Rights” was published, that affirmed that the “supposed nongovernmental organizations […] will stand in line to denounce the violations of the
Government of human rights. A complete delegation […] will enjoy a week in the fall in
the northeast of the United States, at the cost of the apparent defense of the rights of
the citizens;”
f)
On November 4, 2009, the Congresswoman Desiree Santos Amaral manifested
that, within the framework of the holding of the 137th Period of Sessions of the InterAmerican Commission, that “Cofavic (was)[t]here, an NGO that later converted into an
anti-Chavez organism.” In the same sense, on February 26, 2010, Ms. Gabriela
Ramirez, the Ombudsman of Venezuela, manifested that “the [V]enezuelan [S]tate, as
the spokesman of President Chavez, immediately assumes the responsibility for the
facts and indemnifies the victims, only 44 victims were recognized in the report of a
non-governmental organization recently made in opposition;”
g)
on January 24, 2010, “in District 57 of the Metropolitan Police in the Police
Training, the declarations of Liliana Ortega of COFAVIC published that day in the El
Nacional and El Universal newspapers were read and highly criticized and criminalized
by the Commanders before each troop[, where] she had talked about the grave
impunity upon which rely the police employees who commit grave crimes against
human rights,” and
h)
on the 25 and 26 of February and on March 1, 2010, the Prosecutor General of
the Republic publically signaled that COFAVIC had not offered information pre mortem
about the Caracazo victims required by the Public Ministry, for which it signaled that “if
the persons voluntarily do not want to collaborate with the Public Ministry […] they will
[have] to do it by legislation means, and in agreement with the guidelines established
by Law.”
3. The arguments of the representatives to support their request for provisional measures,
namely:
a) “the recent stigmatization to which the [representatives of COFAVIC] have been
subject to, and the possibilities of raids, searches and judicial investigations that have
been raised against them by the Prosecutor General of the Republic, a situation that
affects in a grave and urgent manner the integrity of the members of said
organization[…]. These attacks, as well as other acts of criminalization by the part of
the high public employees has arisen in the framework of the [21] anniversary of