2 a. on August 9, 1999 Digna Ochoa y Plácido, attorney for the non governmental organization known as the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (hereinafter “the PRODH Center”) was kidnapped for a period of four hours by unknown assailants, who took her belongings and personal identification; b. on September 3, 1999 the PRODH Center received by mail three envelopes that contained written threats, one of which contained a black cross in the area below the text; a letter of introduction also appeared with the name Digna Ochoa y Plácido that also contained a black cross drawn in the upper part; c. the petitioners (the National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “Todos los derechos para todos” [“All the Rights for All”], the Center for Justice and International Law, and the “Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights”) connected the threats received to the kidnapping of Mrs. Ochoa on August 9, 1999, because of her personal card found in one of the envelopes. As a consequence, the petitioners requested precautionary measures of the Inter-American Commission to protect the lives and integrity of Mrs. Ochoa and of the priest Edgar Cortéz Morales. The latter was included since one of the envelopes contained a threat directed at the “Reverend Father.” d. on September 8, 1999, the members of the PRODH Center received new threats in four envelopes that appeared in their offices under a flowerpot. The petitioners denounced those circumstances to the Office of the Attorney General Of Justice of the Federal District, which decided to expand two investigations that it had initiated in 1995 and 1996 due to death threats against David Fernández, the director of the PRODH Center at that time, and other members of the same organization, including Mrs. Ochoa; e. on September 9, 1999, the Commission requested that the State adopt precautionary measures to protect the lives and physical integrity of Digna Ochoa Y Plácido, Edgar Cortéz Morales and the members of the PRODH Center; f. on September 21, 1999, the State informed the Commission of the status of the implementation of the measures requested; g. on September 14, 1999, two envelopes with new death threats appeared in the main drawer of the reception desk of the PRODH Center; h. on October 5, 1999, Mrs. Ochoa found in her home the voter’s registration card that was stolen from her during the kidnapping of August 9, 1999; i. on October 13, 1999, a new anonymous letter appeared which contained a bomb threat against the PRODH Center; j. on October 28, 1999, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Mrs. Ochoa was seized in her house and, by threats and assaults, she was interrogated about the activities and the personal information of each one of the members of the PRODH Center, a situation that lasted for a period of approximately nine hours, until daybreak. The attackers also tied her to her bed, placed an open tank of gas beside her, and left at approximately 7:00 a.m.; however, Mrs. Ochoa succeeded in untying herself and later found in her house a briefcase that had been stolen from her during the kidnapping of August 9, 1999; k. on October 29 of the same year, on arriving at the PRODH Center to begin work, the members of that center found the main door open and a series of abnormalities such as disorderly desks, papers strewn on the floor, and a folder that read “Suicide Power”; and l. the petitioners expressed to the Commission that the precautionary measures adopted by Mexico have not been effective. CONSIDERING: 1. That the State ratified the American Convention on April 3, 1982, and in accordance with Article 62 of the Convention, accepted the contentious jurisdiction of the Court on December 16, 1998.