3 Dominico-Haitiano (Dominican-Haitian Meeting Network), with whom it had met on November 27, 2000. It also advised that “the situation of Father Ruquoy and Solange Pier[r]e [was] normal, nobody [was] restricting their freedom of movement” and that there was no “information that their rights ha[d] been violated.” 5. The comments of the Commission of March 12, 2001, indicating that, with regard to Rafaelito Pérez Charles, Benito Tide Méndez and Antonio Sension, the State should issue a decree prohibiting their expulsion and extend them a “special document” indicating that they were subject to international protection. It also indicated that the Government had not responded to their request that it issue a formal public directive recognizing the legitimacy of appearing as a witness in cases before the Inter-American Court and that it extend this legitimacy to Father Pedro Ruquoy and Solange Pierre. 6. The communication of the Inter-American Commission of April 18, 2001, advising that Solange Pierre and Father Pedro Ruquoy had declared that they felt isolated and under attack owing to their participation in the instant case, in the face of which, the State had only indicated that their situation “[was] normal”, although the Court, in an order of August 18, 2000, had ordered that their lives and physical integrity should be protected. In view of the foregoing, it requested that: 1. The Government of the Dominican Republic should be called on to make effective the provisional measures to protect the life and physical integrity of Father Ruquoy and Mrs. Pierre in order to avoid irreparable damage[; and,] 2. The Government of the Dominican Republic should be asked [to meet] with [the said persons] in order to reach agreement on the type of measures that would be appropriate to ensure their safety. 7. The Dominican Republic’s communication of April 27, 2001, advising that it was organizing a meeting with Father Ruquoy and Solange Pierre on May 1, 2001, in order to reach agreement on the measures they considered necessary to ensure their safety. 8. The State’s report of May 2, 2001, in which it stated that the abovementioned meeting had been held the previous day (supra 7), and advised that the Dominican Republic was willing to grant whatever measures Father Pedro Ruquoy and Solange Pierre believed pertinent. However, the said persons requested a week to meet with their respective committees and submit a proposal in this respect. 9. The Commission’s report of May 14, 2001, in which it repeated that, in order to make the measures ordered by the Court effective it was necessary: a. with regard to Benito Tide Méndez, Rafaelito Pérez Charles, Antonio Sension, William Medina Ferreras, Janty Fils-Aimé and Berson Gelim, that the State transmit a written decree to all its officials, immigration agents and members of the armed forces ordering that they should not be expelled, because they were the beneficiaries of provisional measures of protection ordered by the Inter-American Court. b. with regard to the said persons, that the State extend them “special documents” indicating that they are beneficiaries of provisional measures of protection ordered by the Inter-American Court.