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this vehicle matched the characteristics of the one that was prowling
suspiciously around his children’s residence.
In the said communication, the Inter-American Commission requested the Court to
order the State:
d) To provide forthwith effective safety measures to protect the life and
safety of Jorge Guillermo Lemus Alvarado and his next of kin;
e) To coordinate the measures of protection described in subparagraph (a)
supra with the persons to be protected, in order to ensure the effectiveness
and pertinence of such measures; and
f) To adopt, as an essential element of the obligation to protect, effective
measures to investigate the facts that gave rise to this expansion of the
measures, in order to identify and punish those responsible for such acts in
accordance with due process.
5.
The documentation provided by the parties to the proceedings in Myrna Mack
Chang v. Guatemala, being processed before this Court, which include the statement
made by Jorge Guillermo Lemus Alvarado on November 16, 1995, before the Office
of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Guatemala and the judgment delivered on
October 3, 2002, by the Third Criminal Court for Drug-related Activities and Crimes
against the Environment of the Republic of Guatemala.
6.
The Order of the President of April 25, 2003, in which he decided:
1.
To call upon the State to adopt forthwith all necessary measures to
protect the life and safety of Jorge Guillermo Lemus Alvarado and his next of
kin, so that the Court may examine the request for expansion of the
provisional measures adopted in favor of Helen Mack Chang et al.
2.
To call upon the State to carry out the planning and implementation of
the required measures in collaboration with the beneficiaries of such measures
or their representatives and, in general, to keep them informed about progress
in the measures.
3.
To call upon the State to investigate the facts reported that gave rise
to these measures in order to identify and punish those responsible.
4.
To call upon the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights of the measures adopted to comply with this Order, within 15 days of
receiving the corresponding notification.
5.
To call upon the beneficiaries of the measures or their representatives
and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present their
comments on the State’s report, within two weeks of receiving it.
6.
To call upon the State, following its first communication (fourth
operative paragraph), to continue informing the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights about these measures in the respective report that it should
present every two months on the measures ordered in favor of Helen Mack
Chang et al., and to call upon the beneficiaries or their representatives to
continue submitting their comments on these reports of the State within four
weeks of receiving them and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights to present its comments within six weeks of receiving notification of the
respective State reports.
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