2 aggression and harassment [and that] the general status of the prevailing situation in Venezuela ha[d] generated a climate of constant threats and aggression against freedom of expression, and specifically against the personal safety of journalists, cameramen, photographers and other social communication workers;” c. that “[t]he incidents reported include[d] the murder of a journalist[,] attacks against physical safety including bullet wounds[,] threats[,] explosives placed in the media, and professional discrediting [and that the] situation described above ha[d] an intimidating effect on social communicators who feare[d] to identify themselves as journalists due to the reprisals they m[ight] suffer;” d. that “statements by high Government officials against the media and investigative journalists have continued, and these may stimulate subsequent acts of intimidation or attacks against journalists [and that, in turn,] investigation of such acts by public authorities [has] not yield[ed] positive results regarding identification of the perpetrators of those acts;” e. that on January 30 or 29,1 2002, the Commission asked Venezuela to adopt precautionary measures in favor of Luisiana Ríos and Armando Amaya, among others, with the aim of protecting their right to humane treatment and freedom of expression based on the fact that while exercising their role as journalists “after [...] two journalists stepped out of their respective vehicles, a group of roughly fifty [...] people located outside the Cajigal Observatory, surrounded [their] vehicles and beat them, kicking them and yelling insults and vulgarities at them.” In light of the above, the Commission requested that the State: 1) Adopt all necessary measures to protect the life and the right to humane treatment of Luisiana Ríos, Luis Augusto Contreras Alvarado, Armando Amaya, Eduardo Sapene Granier of Radio Caracas Televisión and Mayela León Rodríguez, Jorge Manuel Paz Paz and María Fernanda Flores of Globovisión as well as the protection required by representatives of Globovisión and Radio Caracas Televisión so as to ensure safety of the journalists, the property and facilities of said media. 2) To abstain from any actions that might have an intimidating effect on the professional work of journalists and other employees of media companies Globovisión and Radio Caracas Televisión. 3) To conduct an extensive investigation of the facts occurred on January 20, 2002 against journalists Luisiana Ríos and Mayela León Rodríguez, pf Radio Caracas Televisión and Globovisión, respectively, and the technical teams who were with them at the time[;] f. that the aforementioned acts (supra 2, a, b, c, and d) have “continued despite the precautionary measures granted” by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; g. that the Commission “deems that those acts of harassment, physical attacks and threats have a multiplier effect regarding violations of the human 1 The Inter-American Commission refers indistinctly, in its request for Provisional Measures, to the granting of precautionary measures in the instant case on January 29 or January 30 (see below, Having Seen 2.k).