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informed on the progress of the implementation of the measures ordered by the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights.
4.
To request the State to continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,
on a two-monthly basis, on the fulfillment of the measures adopted.
5.
To request the representatives of the beneficiaries of said measures to submit their
comments on the bi-monthly reports filed by the State, within one month counted as from the
date they receive said reports; and also to request the Inter-American Commission of Human
Rights to file its comments on the reports submitted by the State, within a term of six weeks as
from the date they received such report.
3.
The reports submitted by the State of Venezuela (hereinafter “the State” or
“Venezuela”), the corresponding comments filed by the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights (hereinafter, the “Commission” or the “Inter-American Commission”) and by
the representatives of the beneficiaries (hereinafter “the representatives”) on said reports,
and the filings submitted by the Commission and the representatives during the period
extending from November 2004 and December 2007, in connection with the provisional
measures ordered by the Court.
4.
The application filed by the Inter-American Commission against Venezuela, on April
12, 2007, without any Exhibits, and on May 4 of same year, with the corresponding
Exhibits, in connection with the case Gabriela Perozo et al (No. 12,422).
5.
The notices sent by the Office of the Secretary of the Court (hereinafter the
“Secretariat”) on May 11, 2007, whereby the petition was served upon the parties.
6.
The brief with requests, arguments and evidence submitted by the representatives of
the alleged victims, on July 12, 2007, in connection with the case of Gabriela Perozo et al
(No. 12,442).
7.
The filing of the preliminary objections, answer to the petition and objections to the
requests, arguments and evidence, submitted on behalf of the State on September 11,
2007, without any Exhibits, and on the eighteenth day of same month and year, filed
together with its Exhibits, in connection with the case Gabriela Perozo et al. (12.442).
8.
The submission made on October 23, 2007, and the exhibits thereof, whereby the
representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures, “in their own name and on
behalf of all journalists, management and employees of Globovisión”, requested, inter alia,
“that [the] scope [of these provisional measures] be expanded”, and particularly, that the
State be ordered to implement the following measures:
[…] 9. To request the State to abstain from inflicting psychological aggression on and making
any provocative statements against media companies, its journalists, management and
employees, through its senior officers, and especially, against Globovisión, in order to prevent the
consequent intimidating actions and physical attacks on petitioners.
10.
To request the State to avoid the abusive and unnecessary use of the mechanism of
transmission of governmental messages through simultaneous radio and television broadcasting,
in order to prevent that such mechanism may become a censorship tool used against the media.
11.
To request the State of Venezuela to abstain from implementing discriminating practices
intended to impair the access of private communication and media companies, and especially
Globovisión, to the news originating in governmental sources.
9.
The note issued by the Secretariat on October 30, 2007, whereby, and following the
instructions of the President, the Commission and the State were granted a term expiring