Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 2, 2010 Provisional Measures Regarding El Salvador Matter of Adrián Meléndez-Quijano et al. Having Seen: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court,” “the Court” or “the Tribunal) of May 12, 2007, in which it ratified the Order of the President of the Court of March 23, 2007, and ratified the measures adopted in favor of Adrián Meléndez Quijano, Marina Elizabeth García de Meléndez, Andrea Elizabeth Meléndez García, Estefani Mercedes Meléndez García, Pamela Michelle Meléndez García, Adriana María Meléndez García, Gloria Tránsito Quijano widow of Meléndez, Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano, Eurípides Manuel Meléndez Quijano, Roxana Jacqueline Mejía Torres and Manuel Alejandro Meléndez Mejía. Also, the Court extended the measures in favor of Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez, José Roberto Burgos Viale and Henry Paúl Fino Solórzano. 2. The Order of the Court of November 26, 2007, through which the Court ratified the Order of May 12, 2007, and required the Republic of El Salvador (hereinafter “the State” or “El Salvador”) to maintain the measures regarding the beneficiaries and requested the measures of protection to be planned and implemented with the participation of their beneficiaries and their representatives. Finally, the Court decided to reject as inadmissible the request presented by the representatives of the beneficiaries (hereinafter “the representatives”) in the sense of suspending “all the administrative acts and judicial appeals against Mr. Adrián Meléndez Quijano.” 3. The Order of the President of the Court of December 18, 2009, through which a public hearing was called to be held January 28, 2010, in order to hear detailed and updated information from the State, as well as the observations of the representatives and of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”) about: a) the situation regarding Mr. Adrián Meléndez Quijano and Ms. Gloria de Meléndez and Jacqueline Mejía de Meléndez, and b) the implementation of the provisional measures and the existence of extreme gravity and urgency to avoid irreparable damage to the beneficiaries. 4. The allegations of the parties at the public hearing about the present provisional measures were carried out January 28, 2010, at the venue of the Court.1 1 In said hearing, the following persons appeared for the Inter-American Commission: Lilly Ching Soto and Silvia Serrano advisors; for the representatives: Mr. Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez and Henry Paúl Fino Solórzano; and for the beneficiaries of the measures: Adrián Meléndez Quijano, Gloria Tránsito