ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AUGUST 28, 2001 PROVISIONAL MEASURES DIGNA OCHOA Y PLÁCIDO ET AL. CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The November 17, 1999 Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”) wherein it decided: 1. To require that the State adopt, without delay, whatever measures are necessary to protect the life and integrity of Digna Ochoa y Plácido, Edgar Cortéz Morales, Mario Patrón Sánchez and Jorge Fernández Mendiburu, members of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center. 2. To require that the State adopt, without delay, whatever measures are necessary to assure that the persons who work at or visit the offices of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center can do their work or transactions without danger to the lives or physical integrity. 3. To require that the State investigate the acts denounced that gave rise to the present measures for the purpose of discovering those responsible and punishing them. 4. To require that the State, within fifteen days alter the notification of the present Order, inform the Inter.-American Court of Human Rights as to the measures that it has adopted in compliance with it. 5. To require that the State continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, every two months, about the provisional measures adopted, and to require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its observations to those reports within a period of six weeks after their receipt. 2. The May 31, 2001 report of the United Mexican States (hereinafter “the State” or “Mexico”) wherein it pointed out that: in keeping with the Court’s Order, the measures that the Government adopted were, first, to guarantee the life and integrity of […Digna] Ochoa and guard the facilities of the [Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights] Center, so as to provide protection to the persons who work there; and second, to investigate the threats, harassment and assaults that they claim to have suffered. The State also reported that: […] since the purpose of provisional measures is to avoid irreparable damage to rights such as life and the integrity of persons, and inasmuch as the harassment and threats have not recurred, the Government of Mexico is requesting the following of this […] Inter-American Court: