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maintained. Any other matter can only be brought before the Court as an adversarial
case.5
7.
Pursuant to the Orders of the Court dated July 5, 2006, September 22, 2006,
and January 31, 2008, the State must, inter alia, adopt provisional measures with the
purpose of protecting the lives and personal integrity of: (i) Mery Naranjo Jiménez and
her next of kin, to wit, Juan David Naranjo Jiménez, Alejandro Naranjo Jiménez, Sandra
Janeth Naranjo Jiménez, Alba Mery Naranjo Jiménez, Erika Johann Gómez, Heidi Tatiana
Naranjo Gómez, Sebastián Naranjo Jiménez, María Camila Naranjo Jiménez, Aura María
Amaya Naranjo, Esteban Torres Naranjo, and Luisa María Escudero Jiménez, as well as
(ii) María del Socorro Mosquera Londoño.
1. On the situation of Ms. Mery Naranjo and her relatives
1.1
On the protective measures
aforementioned beneficiaries
implemented
to
the
benefit
of
the
8.
The State indicated that the protection and security measures agreed upon to the
benefit of Ms. Mery Naranjo and her relatives "continue to be implemented in an
effective, timely, and continuous fashion." In particular, in October of 2010, the State
reported that those measures consist of the following: i) the residence where the
beneficiary and her immediate family live is guarded by a police detail 24 hours a day; ii)
the beneficiary is connected to the National Police’s “Plan Godfather,” through which a
trusted agent is available in the city of Medellin to whom she or her relatives can turn to
should problems arise with the implementation of the measures or if new facts involving
threats or risk arise; iii) the beneficiaries have the opportunity to ask the National Police
in a timely fashion to provide police escorts when desired or needed; 6 and iv) two
“Avantel” radios have been assigned, one for Ms. Mery Naranjo and the other for the
chief of the “El Corazón” Police Station, which has jurisdiction in the area where the
beneficiaries live. Likewise, the State made reference in several of its reports to different
terrestrial transportation assistance granted to the beneficiaries, with the last of these
reported to the Court by Colombia as having been "approved through August 23, 2010."
Likewise, the State emphasized in its reports that "the security and protective measures
that have been implemented and granted to the benefit of Ms. Mery Naranjo are
collective in nature and therefore cover her immediate family" on their having been
agreed upon in this form with the beneficiaries and the representatives in the follow-up
meetings held and agreements reached (infra Considering 20).
9.
In addition to the aforementioned protective measures, the State indicated in its
report dated October 8, 2010, that on September 2, 2010, funds for two temporary
relocations were approved to be “turned over [...] in a single outlay” to the benefit of
beneficiary Mery Naranjo given her urgent need to leave the area of risk. Colombia
explained that, in the context of the follow-up and coordination meeting held with the
beneficiaries, on June 25, 2010, Ms. Mery Naranjo expressed her concern over the
disturbances that had taken place in Medellin’s Comuna 13, where she lives (infra
Considering 65(f), 65(g) and 6610(c)). As a result this, they offered her support for a
temporary relocation the Protection Program of the Interior and Justice Ministry, for
which consent had to be granted. According to the State, Ms. Mery Naranjo expressed
her wish for and acceptance of the corresponding relocations, which resulted in the
approval of the corresponding funding for the temporary relocation in September of this
5
Cf. Case of James et al. Provisional Measures regarding Trinidad and Tobago. Order of the Court of
August 29, 1998, Considering 6; Case of the Caracazo. Provisional Measures regarding Venezuela. Order of the
Court of May 28, 2010, Considering 7, and Case of the 19 Tradesmen, supra footnote 1, Considering 5.
6
In its report dated July 5, 2010 (supra Having Seen 2), the State reported that "the Medellin
Metropolitan Police have carried out the corresponding police escorts to the benefit of Ms. Mery Naranjo when
they have been requested and in a timely fashion."