ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS* OF JULY 6, 2006 REQUEST FOR PROVISIONAL MEASURES SUBMITTED BY THE INTERAMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REGARDING THE STATE OF ARGENTINA IN FAVOR OF MARÍA LEONTINA MILLACURA LLAIPÉN ET AL. HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of June 20, 2006, and its attachments in which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”), pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), a request for provisional measures, for the State of Argentina (hereinafter “the State” or “Argentina”) to adopt the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of the following thirteen persons: “María Leontina Millacura Llaipén, her children, Marcos and Valeria Torres, her son-in-law, Juan Pablo Caba; Gerardo Colín; Patricio Oliva; Tamara Bolívar; Walter Mansilla; Silvia de los Santos; Verónica Heredia; Miguel Ángel Sánchez, and Viviana and Sonia Hayes”. 2. The grounds indicated by the Commission in its request for provisional measures (supra Having seen paragraph 1), which are summarized below: a) On November 14, 2003, Mrs. Millacura Llaipén submitted a petition to the Commission, “registered as No. 960/03, which has been the subject of Admissibility Report 69/05, and which is currently being processed as case No. 12,533. The request for provisional measures has been registered [by the Commission] as No. 6-05.” This petition contains an allegation regarding “the international responsibility of agents of the Argentine State for the [alleged] illegal detention, incommunicado detention, torture and forced disappearance of her son in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province, which started on October 2, 2003 [in the First Departmental Police Station [Comisaría Seccional Primera]].” The petition refers also to the alleged denial of judicial protection and guarantees owing to the absence of an adequate investigation and the punishment of the officials who allegedly tortured and disappeared Mr. Torres. Since the investigation process was initiated, three witnesses who testified in the case have allegedly been “murdered”; b) On January 10, 2005, Mrs. Millacura Llaipén and the lawyers, Silvia de los Santos and Verónica Heredia, requested the Commission to issue * Judges Oliver Jackman and Diego García-Sayán did not take part in the deliberation and signature of this Order, for reasons beyond their control. Judge Jackman advised that he would be unable to take part in the seventy-first regular session of the Court.