4 present information on the irregular way in which the body was removed by the judicial authorities.” 13. The Commission’s petition, included with these observations, in which it requested the Court to order the State to provide information on “[t]he measures adopted to investigate the assassination of Gonzalo and Humberto Zárate Triana and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators and those who planned it.” 14. The State’s twenty-eighth report of October 12, 2001, in which it stated the following with regard to the situation of Gonzalo Zárate: He was absent from Villavicencio at the beginning of 1997 and the National Police had no information on Mr. Zárate’s activities and place of residence. In June 1997, the National Police carried out a risk analysis and a study of the threats to Mr. Zárate. The National Police provided further information in official communication No. 209 of September 5, 1997, signed by the deputy chief of the SIJIN, in which he offers to provide personal security services to Gonzalo Zárate, who, in official communication No. 18 of September 14, 1997, stated that he did not require the security services for personal and work-related reasons and that, should he require such services or be aware of any anomaly that might represent a threat to his life, he would provide information immediately, and also if he continued to work in the sphere of human rights. 15. The Commission’s observations of December 1, 2001, on the State’s twentyeighth report (supra 14) in which it requested the Court to order the State to provide extensive information on “[t]he measures adopted to investigate the assassination of Gonzalo and Humberto Zárate Triana and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators and those who planned it.” CONSIDERING: 1. That, in accordance with the order of the Court of June 19, 1998 (supra Having seen 1), as of that date, the Court decided to lift the provisional measures in favor of Gonzalo Zárate Triana called for by the Court in its order of February 5, 1997, and to consider them to be at an end. 2. That, with the lifting of the provisional measures that were in force in favor of Gonzalo Zárate Triana, the State’s obligation to inform the Court on the facts relating to this case ceased. THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DECIDES: 1. To call on the State and the Inter-American Commission to cease transmitting information with regard to Gonzalo Zárate Triana, in whose favor the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered provisional measures on February 5, 1997, and lifted them on June 19, 1998. 2. To call on the State of Colombia to continue submitting its reports on the provisional measures taken in favor of the persons protected in this case every two months and on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its observations on these reports within six weeks of receiving them.