ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
OF JUNE 26, 2012
PROVISIONAL MEASURES
REGARDING THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA
CASE OF THE 19 TRADESMEN v. COLOMBIA
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The Judgment on the merits, reparations, and costs delivered by the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights (hereinafter the “Inter-American Court,” “the Court,” or “the Tribunal”)
on July 5, 2004.
2.
The Orders issued by the President of the Court on July 30, 2004; April 28, 2006, and
February 6, 2007, as well as the Orders of the Inter-American Court of September 3, 2004; July
4, 2006; May 12, 2007; July 8, 2009, and August 26, 2010. In this last Order, the Court
decided:
1.
To continue supervising the fulfillment of the State’s obligation to guarantee the life, physical
integrity, and security of Carmen Rosa Barrera Sánchez, Lina Noralba Navarro Flórez, Luz Marina
Pérez Quintero, Miryam Mantilla Sánchez, Ana Murillo Delgado de Chaparro, Suney Dinora Jáuregui
Jaimes, Ofelia Sauza Suárez de Uribe, Rosalbina Suárez Bravo de Sauza, Marina Lobo Pacheco,
Manuel Ayala Mantilla, Jorge Corzo Viviescas, Alejandro Flórez Pérez, Luz Marina Pinzón Reyes, and
their respective families, according to Operative Paragraph eleven of the Judgment, within the
framework of the implementation of provisional measures and in conformity with this Court’s Order of
July 8, 2009.
2.
To require the State of Colombia to maintain the measures it has thus far adopted and to
adopt, without delay, those measures necessary to protect the rights to life and physical integrity of
Wilmar Rodríguez Quintero, Yimmy Efraín Rodríguez Quintero, Nubia Saravia, Karen Dayana
Rodríguez Saravia, Valeria Rodríguez Saravia, and William Rodríguez Quintero. In order to do so, the
State must provide the beneficiaries or their representatives with the opportunity to participate in the
planning and application of the measures and, in general, to keep them informed as to progress made
in their timely implementation.
3.
To abate the provisional measures adopted in favor of Salomón Flórez Contreras, Sandra
Belinda Montero Fuentes, and their respective next of kin, in conformity with the facts established in
[…] this Order.
4.
To abate, in conformity with the facts established in [this] Order, the provisional measures
ordered by this Court in favor of Luis José Pundor Quintero and his family for as long as they continue
to reside outside the State of Colombia, pursuant to that established in […] this Order.