2 3. To order the State to allow the applicants to participate in planning and implementing the measures and, in general, to inform them of progress regarding the measures ordered by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights. 4. To order the State to investigate the facts that were reported and which gave rise to these measures, with the aim of discovering and punishing those responsible. 5. To order the State to continue reporting to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, every two months, on the provisional measures adopted, and to order the representatives of the alleged victims to submit their observations on the respective reports within four weeks of receiving them and to order the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its observations on the said reports within six weeks of receiving them. 3. The Order of the Court of February 18, 2003, in which it decided: 1. To admit the State’s waiver, for all effects, of the preliminary objections that it had filed. 2. To continue the public hearing convened in the Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of November 30, 2002, and all other procedural acts relating to the processing of the merits and possible reparations in this case. 3. To notify this Order to the State, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the representatives of the alleged victim’s next of kin. 4. The public hearing held at the seat of the Court on February 18, 19 and 20, 2003, in the Mack Chang case, pending before the Court. 5. The report of the expert witness, Iduvina Hernández, presented during this public hearing (supra fourth having seen paragraph), in which she stated that, since her summons to testify before the Court, a series of incidents had occurred, such as telephone calls and interference with her computer, which she considered to be threats. Moreover, under questioning by the representatives of the alleged victim about whether she considered that there was a connection between her appearance before the Court and those threats, and whether she feared some form of reprisal, the expert witness declared: I believe so, because before the summons to appear and before this activity, I had never been confronted with such a difficult and unusual situation, in such a short lapse of time. When we have any activity that affects or relates to the Guatemala security services, there is something we consider abnormal in our sphere of work. […] Yes, I am afraid that some entity linked to the State of Guatemala may react violently because I have given evidence.