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f)
on December 30, 2006, at 4 pm, the left rear window of Eurípedes
Manuel Meléndez’s vehicle was broken while it was parked outside the house
where he and his family live;
g)
at 10 am on January 28, 2007, when Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano left
his house accompanied by his family, he encountered “a double-cabin pick-up
truck of the National Civil Police” (PNC) parked in front of his house. The
vehicle followed them until they arrived at their destination;
h)
at noon on the same day, Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano, sister of
Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano, was “followed by a double cabin pick-up truck
for approximately an hour. Although she tried to elude her pursuer several
times, she failed. She could not see the license plates due to her nervousness”.
Moreover, they referred that a similar event had occurred prior to November 5,
2006.
i)
on February 2, 2007, at approximately 10:30 am, unknown individuals
grabbed documents from Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano’s vehicle while she
was visiting one of her brothers in San Salvador Hospital;
j)
the telephone calls have persisted during the night in Major Adrián
Meléndez Quijano’s house. The most recent calls occurred on February 6 and
14 of 2007; and
k)
José Roberto Burgos received telephone calls early in the morning on
January 22, 23, and 25 of January in which the caller asked about Major Adrián
Meléndez Quijano’s case. In addition, on February 11, 2007, he was followed
by a vehicle with polarized windows and lacking license plates.
5.
The beneficiaries of the provisional measures, according to the Commission,
would be the following individuals: Adrián Meléndez Quijano; his wife, Marina Elizabeth
García de Meléndez; his daughters, Andrea Elizabeth Meléndez García, Estefani
Mercedes Meléndez García, Pamela Michelle Meléndez García, Adriana María Meléndez
García; his mother, Gloria Tránsito Quijano viuda de Meléndez; and his sister, Sandra
Ivette Meléndez Quijano; as well as Eurípides Manuel Meléndez Quijano; and his wife
Roxana Jacqueline Mejía Torres, and their son Manuel Alejandro Meléndez Mejía. The
Commission did not include as beneficiaries of the measure the attorneys of IDHUCA
Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez and José Roberto Burgos Viale, because even though they
have been subject to threats and harassment, these individuals are already
beneficiaries of the provisional measures ordered by the Court in the case of García
Prieto and others v. El Salvador 1.
6.
The Commission requests that the Court order the State to:
a)
adopt, without delay, all measures necessary to guarantee the life and
personal integrity of the beneficiaries;
b)
investigate in a serious, exhaustive and expedite manner the acts of
intimidation, harassment, and threats against the beneficiaries; identify those
responsible and impose the corresponding punishment, in order to prevent the
recurrence of these events or the occurrence of irreparable damage to the
beneficiaries;
c)
report as soon as possible the advances and results of the investigations
undertaken to identify and punish those responsible for the events that
prompted the request for provisional measures; and
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Cf. Matter of Gloria Giralt de García Prieto and others. Provisional Measures. Resolution of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 26, 2006.
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