3 e. that on November 21, 2002 the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), the Episcopal Vicarship of Caracas and another entity “requested that the Commission in turn ask the [...] Inter-American Court of Human Rights to grant Provisional Measures in favor of the Non-Governmental Organization Comité de Familiares de Víctimas de los Sucesos de FebreroMarzo de 1989 (COFAVIC)”. 3. The additional statement by the Commission, in its request for Provisional Measures, that: a. the threatening phone calls as well as the acts of intimidation that are intensifying and are related to COFAVIC’s work, constitute clear signs that the safety of its members “depends on their silence;” b. the threats have continued despite the request for precautionary measures made by the Commission and that the State of Venezuela ordered police protection for Liliana Ortega, Yris Medina Cova, Hilda Páez (Gilda Páez), Maritza Romero, Aura Liscano (Lizcano), Alicia de González, and Carmen Alicia Mendoza, entrusted to the Metropolitan Police; c. Liliana Ortega “was guarded on a daily basis by four motorized officers of the Metropolitan Police and two officers of the Motorized Brigade [and that] COFAVIC’s offices were guarded internally and externally, on a daily basis, by two Metropolitan Police officers;” d. the police protection they receive “has been interrupted several times due to the difficult situation of the Metropolitan Police in the last two months [the first time being] due to the strike begun [...] on October 1 [2002],” for which reason “Liliana Ortega had to leave Venezuela [...] because during the strike the daily police protection she had received was not provided, which together with the growing political violence in the country, seriously threatened her safety.” Her protection was interrupted a second time, due to “intervention of the Motorized Directorate of the Metropolitan Police by the Venezuelan army and the National Guard” in November. “[I]ntervention of the Metropolitan Police has made police protection uncertain, increasing the risk run both by the organization and by its members;” e. Liliana Ortega has received information that one of the officers who guarded her personally had been arrested for his alleged participation in the homicide of Luis Alcalá, Media coordinator for the opposition organization “Defensores de la Nueva República”, who “had been conducting investigations on paramilitary activities allegedly carried out by members of the Bolivarian circles that support the government;” f. in view of the above, (supra 3.e) “it was agreed by the General Directorate of the Metropolitan Police that personal protection of Dr. Ortega would be entrusted to two officers of the Motorized Directorate of the Metropolitan Police [and also that] protection of COFAVIC’s offices would continue to be provided by the Police Station at La Candelaria;” g. subsequently, “on November 16, [2002] the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, ordered an intervention of the Metropolitan Police, subordinate to the Mayor’s Office in Caracas,” and appointed retired