ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS* OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2001 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BÁMACA VELÁSQUEZ CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The June 30, 1998 Order of the President of the Inter.-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the President of the Court”), wherein he decided: 1. To request the State of Guatemala to adopt forthwith such measures as are necessary to protect the integrity of Mr. Santiago Cabrera López, so that the Court might examine the pertinence of the provisional measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 2. To request the State of Guatemala to submit a report by July 17, 1998, on the measures taken pursuant to the President’s order and its view on the measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights so that the information might be brought to the Court’s attention. 3. To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its observations on the initial report submitted by the Guatemalan State within one month from the date on which the report is transmitted to it. 4. To submit to the Inter.-American Court of Human Rights, for consideration at its forty-first regular session, the petition from the Inter.American Commission on Human Rights, this Order, the report presented by the Guatemalan State and the Commission’s observations thereon. 2. The August 29, 1998 Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court) whereby it ratified and extended “the measures necessary to protect the life and integrity of Alfonso Cabrera Viagres, María Victoria López, Blanca Cabrera, Carmelinda Cabrera, Teresa Aguilar Cabrera, Olga Maldonado and Carlos Alfonso Cabrera,” and called upon the State “to investigate the facts in the matter and report on the situation of the persons in question.” 3. The first report presented by the Guatemalan State (hereinafter “the State” or “Guatemala”), dated October 29, 1998, wherein it reported that as a result of a meeting between the Presidential Coordinating Committee for the Executive’s Human Rights Policy (henceforth “COPREDEH”) and Mr. Santiago Cabrera López, it was agreed that the measures of protection will be as follows: first, constant patrolling “by National Civil Police officers in the vicinity of his residence and [at] his place of work,” located in Quetzaltenango; and second, a steady flow of communication between the National Police and Mr. Cabrera López, “so that the proper authorities may stay abreast of any situation that might affect the physical safety of Mr. Cabrera López and his family.” Finally, it reported that the measures of protection the Court * Judge Máximo Pacheco Gómez informed the Court that for reasons of force majeure he would not be present for part of the Court’s LII regular session, which is why he neither participated in the deliberations on this order nor affixed his name thereto.