5 face was carried out and recommendations were made; visits are made around her house which have been reinforced by a round-theclock patrol which is stationed near her house; and direct telephone lines communicating with the Human Rights Office and the Police Headquarters have been provided thereto; ix. according to the information supplied in January 2006, no further threats or acts of harassment had been reported by Islena Rey, Mariela de Giraldo, Sara Giraldo, or Natalia Giraldo as claimants or victims neither to the Dirección Seccional de Fiscalías of Villavicencio (Villavicencio Regional Office of Public Prosecutors’ Offices) nor to the Office of the Public Prosecutor thereunder; and x. on January 21, 2002 “a professional survivor pension was granted to Mariela [de Giraldo] and her daughters Sara […] and Natalia Giraldo […].” b) Regarding the investigation into the facts denounced which gave rise to the adoption of these measures in order to identify those responsible for such acts and, where appropriate, punish them, that: i. regarding the murder of Josué Giraldo-Cardona, committed on October 13, 1996, in accordance with the information provided in October 2005, the investigation proceedings which were started before the National Unit of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law under number 140 were at the preliminary stage and evidence was being collected in order to elucidate the facts and identify the perpetrators or accessories before or after the facts. The names of the alleged physical perpetrators of the murder of Josué Giraldo were established, but instigators could not be identified as the former were violently killed the year following the murder of Mr. Giraldo. The investigation proceedings into the alleged instigators, started under No. 008-000043/97, in accordance with the information provided by the Office of the Attorney General “concluded with the acquittal of National Army Colonels Pedro Ignacio Hernández-Pulido and Ricardo Morales-Piedrahita.” Regarding the application filed by Álvaro de Jesús Giraldo-Herrera et al. for the death of Josué Giraldo-Cardona, against the State, the Ministry of Defense, the National Army, the National Police, the DAS, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Security of Meta Department, the Tribunal Administrativo del Meta (Meta Administrative Court) rendered judgment in the first instance on August 17, 2005, whereby the State of Colombia was acquitted; ii. regarding the murder of Pedro Malagón, deputy to Meta Department Assembly by Unión Patriótica political party, and his daughter Elda Milena Malagón, in accordance with the information provided in October 2005, the investigation proceedings started before the National Unit of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law under No. 163 were at the preliminary stage and evidence was being collected in order to elucidate the facts and identify the perpetrators and accomplices before and after the facts. The names of the alleged physical perpetrators of the murder, who were alleged members of a “gang of hired gunmen which operated in Meta Department, were established. It was further established that these individuals were killed in 1997.” The investigation proceedings into the alleged instigators, started under No. 008-000043/97, in