ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 REQUEST FOR EXPANSION OF PROVISIONAL MEASURES IN FAVOR OF MARIANELA SÁNCHEZ ORTIZ AND FAMILY WITH REGARD TO VENEZUELA MATTERS OF CERTAIN VENEZUELAN PRISONS HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the InterAmerican Court" or “the Court") of November 24, 2009, in the matters of Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”); Yare I and Yare II Capital Region Penitentiary Center (Yare Prison); Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental Region (Uribana Prison), and Capital El Rodeo I and El Rodeo II Judicial Confiement Center, in which it was decided to “procedurally join the corresponding processing of such matters” and decided, inter alia: 1. To order the State to maintain and adopt the measures necessary to continue protecting the life and personal integrity of the beneficiaries of the following four penitentiary centers: Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”); Yare I and Yare II Capital Region Penitentiary Center (Yare Prison); Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental Region (Uribana Prison) and El Rodeo I and El rodeo II Capital Judicial Confinement Center. 2. To require the State to adopt the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of Mr. Humberto Prado. […] 5. To reject the request for expansion made by the representatives of the beneficiaries in relation to Mrs. Marianela Sánchez, María Inés García and Miriam Bolívar and Mr. Carlos Alberto Nieto Palma, Emil Niño and Wilmer Linero, based on the reasons mentioned in considering paragraphs 39 and 41 of the […] Order. […] 2. The Order of the Court of May 15, 2011, in the matter of Aragua Detention Center ("Tocorón Prison") and in the matter of Ciudad Bolivar Judicial Detention Center ("Villa Hermosa Prison”). In the latter, the Court decided, inter alia: