ORDER OF THE AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF FEBRUARY 7, 2006 PROVISIONAL MEASURES MATTER OF RAMÍREZ-HINOSTROZA ET AL.* HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order by the American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Tribunal”) of September 21, 2005 on provisional measures, whereby it decided: 1. To ratify in all its terms the Order by the President of the American Court of Human Rights of July 22, 2005 and, therefore, to call upon the State to maintain the measures it may have adopted and to adopt, forthwith, such measures as may be necessary to comply with the provisions in the aforementioned Order and in the […] Order, regarding protection of the life and personal integrity of Mr. Luis Alberto RamírezHinostroza, of his wife Susana Silvia Rivera-Prado, of his three daughters: Yolanda Susana Ramírez-Rivera, Karen Rose Ramírez-Rivera and Lucero Consuelo RamírezRivera, and of his lawyer Carlos Rivera-Paz, taking into account for such purpose the gravity of the situation and the specific risk circumstances attending. 2. To call upon the State to continue investigating the events which have lead to the adoption of the instant provisional measures and, if it be the case, to identify those responsible for them and impose on the culprits punishment as due, in accordance with the provisions in the eight Having Seen clause of the […] Order. 3. To call upon the State to take all the pertinent steps so that the protection measures required in the […] Order be planned and implemented with the beneficiaries thereof, or their representatives, participating in the process, in such manner as to provide the aforementioned measures in a prompt and effective way and as to keep them informed, broadly speaking, on the progress in the implementation thereof. 4. To call upon the State to report to the American Court of Human Rights, within fifteen days as from service upon it of this Order, on the measures which it has taken in compliance hereof, in accordance with the provisions contained in the seventh to eleventh Having Seen clauses of the […] Order. 5. Request the beneficiaries of the instant measures or their representatives and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights to submit to the American Court of Human Rights, within five and seven days, respectively, as from notification of the report by the State, the observations they may deem pertinent to the report the State has been called upon to effect in the foregoing operative paragraph, in accordance with the provisions in the tenth and eleventh Having Seen clauses of the […] Order. * Judge Diego García-Sayán informed the Court that, for reasons beyond his control, he would be unable to be present at the deliberations and sign this Order.