2 9. To require the State of the Dominican Republic to adopt, forthwith, the necessary measures to protect the lives and personal integrity of Father Pedro Ruquoy and Solange Pierre, witnesses at the public hearing of August 8, 2000[;] 10. To require the State of the Dominican Republic and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to provide the Inter-American Court of Human Rights with detailed information on the situation of members of the border communities or “bateys” who may be subject to forced repatriation, deportation or expulsion[;] 11. To require the State of the Dominican Republic to report to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights every two months as of the notification of this order, on the provisional measures that it has adopted in compliance with it[; and] 12. To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its comments on the reports of the State of the Dominican Republic within six weeks of receiving them. 2. The order of the Inter-American Court of November 12, 2000, it which it was decided: 1. To ratify the order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 14, 2000, and, therefore, to require the State of the Dominican Republic to adopt, forthwith, the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of Rafaelito Pérez Charles and Berson Gelim[;] 2. To require the State of the Dominican Republic to refrain from deporting or expelling Rafaelito Pérez Charles from its territory[;] 3. To require the State of the Dominican Republic to allow the immediate return of Berson Gelim to its territory, even making it possible for him to meet with his son[;] 4. To require the State of the Dominican Republic to continue the follow-up of the investigations that were already initiated by the competent authorities regarding Rafaelito Pérez Charles and Berson Gelim[;] 5. To require the State of the Dominican Republic, in its reports on the provisional measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 18, 2000, to also report on the urgent measures it has adopted in compliance with this Order[; and] 6. To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its remarks on the report of the State of the Dominican Republic within six weeks of receiving them. 3. The communication of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) of December 14, 2000, in which it asks the Court to request the State of the Dominican Republic (hereinafter “the State” or “the Dominican Republic”): 1. [...to provide] assurances that Father Ruquoy can return to the Dominican Republic as a legal resident, after visiting his ailing mother in Belgium; 2. [...] that the Government emit a public declaration distancing itself from the attacks on Father Ruquoy and Solange Pierre, and confirming that the former is a permanent resident and the latter a Dominican citizen, and also that both [were] the subjects of a provisional measures of the Honorable Court protecting their lives and physical integrity[.] Finally, it requested the Inter-American Court to remind the State that all the provisional measures that it had issued were fully in force. 4. The State’s second report of January 2, 2001, in which it stated that the Directorate of Migration had still not been able to locate Rafaelito Pérez Charles and Berson Gelim, and had therefore requested the help of the Red de Encuentro