11 send the following documents as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case: a copy of the file of the ongoing criminal proceeding for the murder of Myrna Mack Chang from the October 4, 2001 ruling of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, in which it designated the Second Chamber of the Court of Appeals to decide on the amparo remedy filed by Juan Guillermo Oliva Carrera on July 23, 2001, to the present time, and copies of several actions carried out within the aforementioned criminal proceeding before October, 2001. 57. On October 15, 2003, the State requested an extension to the period given to send the evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, requested by this Secretariat (supra para. 54) and it submitted some of the documents requested. In this regard, the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, granted said extension until October 30, 2003. On October 24 and 27, 2003, the State submitted some of those documents. VI PROVISIONAL MEASURES 58. On August 9, 2002, the Inter-American Commission filed before the InterAmerican Court, pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention and 74 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission, a request for provisional measures in favor of Helen Mack Chang and the members of the Myrna Mack Foundation. In said brief, the Commission based its request on several facts that endangered the life and the safety of these persons because “there have been a number of threats and acts of harassment against witnesses, judges, prosecutors, policemen, attorneys, employees of the [Myrna Mack Foundation], and next of kin and friends of [Myrna Mack].” 59. On August 14, 2002, the President ordered adoption of urgent measures, in which he ordered the State to adopt, forthwith, such measures as might be necessary to protect the life and the personal integrity of Helen Mack Chang and of the members of the Myrna Mack Foundation.3 60. On August 26, 2002 the Court decided to ratify in its entirety the August 14, 2002 Order of the President and to adopt, forthwith, such measures as might be necessary to protect the life and the personal integrity of Helen Mack Chang, Viviana Salvatierra and América Morales Ruiz, of Luis Romero Rivera and of the other members of the Myrna Mack Foundation.4 61. On February 21, 2003, one day after the end of the public hearing held in the instant case, and in connection with a request by the representatives of the next of kin of the victim and the statements by expert witness Iduvina Hernández, the Court decided ex officio to expand the provisional measures. To this end, it ordered the State to adopt such measures as might be necessary to protect the life and personal integrity of the next of kin of Myrna Mack Chang, i.e.: Zoila Chang Lau, the mother; Marco Mack Chang, brother; Freddy Mack Chang, brother; Vivian Mack Chang, sister; 3 Cf. Helen Mack Chang et al. Provisional Measures. Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of August 14, 2002. Series E No. 4. 4 Cf. Helen Mack Chang et al. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of August 26, 2002. Series E No. 4.