7 the “Netherlands Institute for Human Rights- SIM” and on July 29, 2008 the “Cámara Venezolana de la Industria de la Radiodifusión”. IV PROVISIONAL MEASURES 20. On July 16, 2004, the Commission requested the Court to order the State to adopt provisional measures. On August 3, 2004, the then President of the Court, in consultation with all the judges of the Court, issued an Order in which the State was ordered to adopt such measures as might be necessary to “safeguard and protect the lives, safety, and freedom of expression of the reporters, executives and employees of Globovisión, and of the other persons who are in the facilities of said broadcaster or who are directly linked to the journalistic operation of this broadcaster[;] such measures as might be necessary to protect the perimeter of the head offices of the Globovisión social communications broadcaster [and] to investigate the facts”.14 On September 4, 2004 the Court ratified to its full extent the Order of the President.15 21. On October 23, 2007 the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures, “on their own behalf, and on behalf of all the journalists, management, and other employees of Globovisión,” requested, inter alia, that the “content [of said provisional measures] be expanded". The State objected to the foregoing and requested the Court to rescind the measures. On November 21, 2007, the Court rejected the State’s requests for rescission of the measures and the representatives’ request for expansion of such measures and required the State to maintain the provisional measures decided in the Order of September 4, 2004.16 22. On December 17, 2007 the representatives submitted a new request for expansion. On the 21 of that same month and year, the then President rejected said request.17 The Court ratified that order on January 29, 2008.18 23. Upon the delivery of this Judgment, the provisional measures ordered in September 2004 are still in force. V PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS A) First Preliminary Objection “On the untimeliness in the filing of arguments and evidence contained in the Brief of Pleadings, Motions and Evidence submitted by the alleged victims". 24. In this first preliminary objection, the State requested that “any assessment of the autonomous brief signed by the [alleged] victims be omitted, due to the fact that such brief 14 Cf. Order of the then President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of August 3, 2004. 15 Cf. Order issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on September 4, 2004. 16 Cf. Order issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on November 21, 2007. 17 Cf. Order of the then President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of December 21, 2007. 18 Cf. Order issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on January 29, 2008.