2 e) that on June 20, 2006, Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano and Eurípides Manuel Meléndez Quijano were the object of pursuit by an unknown vehicle and received phone messages containing death threats. These events were reported to the National Civil Police (“Policia Nacional Civil”); and f) that on October 3, 2006, the Meléndez Quijano brothers were pursued by vehicles. 3. The adoption of precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on October 10, 2006. These measures were adopted in order to guarantee the life and integrity of Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano, Eurípides Manuel Meléndez Quijano and their family members. On February 28, 2007, a petition was presented before the Commission (No. 242/07) in regards to the foregoing and also requested that the Commission the Court to grant provisional measures, since the State had failed to implement the precautionary measures issued by the Commission. Likewise, the petitioners indicated that they had been subject to threats and harassments after the adoption of the precautionary measures. In light of this situation, the Commission decided, during its 127th Ordinary Period of Sessions, to submit the present request for provisional measures to the Court, because “the State has failed to implement the precautionary measures and the situation of extreme gravity and urgency has persisted”. 4. The basis for the present request for provisional measures, in which the Commission alleged that: a) at 2pm on October 26, 2006, a hearing of the Special Brigade of Military Security was convened by the Military Judge of First Instance. Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano was accompanied by his attorneys Eurípides Manuel Meléndez Quijano and Henry Paúl Fino Solórzano of the Human Rights Institute of Central American University (“Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana”, hereinafter, “IDHUCA”). Mr. Henry Paúl Fino Solórzano’s vehicle was searched, despite the fact that they were in an area controlled by the Command Guard of said Brigade. During the search, a file and other items belonging to IDHUCA were lost. The incident was reported to the military authorities; b) on October 26, 2006, Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez, José Burgos Viale, and Henry Paúl Fino Solórzano, attorneys of IDHUCA, received simultaneous threatening messages on their cellular phones. These events were reported to the Attorney General of the Republic on November 7, 2006; c) on November 9, 2006 at 6:30 pm, one of Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano’s daughters “observed two unknown men get out of a blue car in front of the family home and signal towards the home[. T]his same event was [also] witnessed by Major Adrián Meléndez Quijano’s wife, who at that moment was leaving in her vehicle and was able to see that the men remained in front of her house”. Afterwards, she reported the incident to the National Civil Police; d) on December 4, 2006, Gloria Tránsito Quijano viuda de Meléndez, returned to El Salvador. She and her son began to receive threatening phone calls, and as a result she fled the country on December 27, 2006. Nonetheless, due to the illness of one of her children, Gloria Tránsito Quijano viuda de Meléndez has recently returned to El Salvador; e) on December 15 and 16 of 2006, after several days of threatening phone calls late at night and early in the morning Eurípides Manuel Meléndez had a “nervous breakdown” as a result of the constant uncertainty, physical insecurity, and stress that he suffers;

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