5 - Manuel Suy-Perebal, witness to the abduction of Sebastián Velásquez-Mejía, was among the five CERJ members who fled Chunimá from October 6 - November 16, 1990. He has been repeatedly threatened by the civil patrols. - José Suy-Morales is one of the five CERJ members who fled Chunimá from October 6 - November 16, 1990. He has been repeatedly threatened by the civil patrols. - Amílcar Méndez-Urizar, President of the CERJ, has been the victim of repeated death threats. Mr. Méndez is one of Guatemala's most prominent defenders of human rights. - Justina Tzoc-Chinol, member of the board of directors of the CERJ. - Manuel Mejía-Tol, member of the board of directors of the CERJ. - Miguel Sucuqui-Mejía, member of the board of directors of the CERJ. - Juan Tum-Mejía, caretaker at the CERJ office, son of CERJ member María Mejía, who was murdered on March 17, 1990, in Parraxtut, following death threats and harassment against her family for their membership in the CERJ. - Claudia Quiñones, secretary of the CERJ. - Pedro Ixcaya, CERJ member living in the CERJ office following the May 1, 1990, murder of his cousin, José María Ixcaya, who was the CERJ leader in La Fe, Sololá. Pedro Ixcaya has received repeated death threats from civil patrol chiefs. - Roberto Lemus-Garza, judge at the Second Criminal Court in Santa Cruz del Quiché, who investigated murders of human rights monitors from Chunimá and issued an arrest warrant for Manuel Perebal-Ajtzalam III for the abduction and murder of CERJ leader Sebastián Velásquez-Mejía. Judge Lemus has also issued warrants for patrollers in other cases. -María Antonieta Torres-Arce, justice of the peace in Sololá, who, on February 18, 1991, as acting justice of the peace in Chichicastenango, El Quiché, issued arrest warrants for Manuel Perebal-Ajtzalam III and Manuel León-Lares for the murder of Juan Perebal-Xirúm and Manuel Perebal-Morales and the severe wounding of Diego Perebal-León, all active members of CERJ. CONSIDERING: 1. Guatemala is a State Party to the American Convention, whose Article 1(1) spells out the obligation of all the States Parties to respect the rights and freedoms recognized in that treaty and to ensure their free and full exercise to all persons subject to their jurisdiction; 2. Guatemala ratified the American Convention on May 25, 1978, and accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court on March 9, 1987, in accordance with Article 62 of the Convention; 3. Article 63(2) of the Convention provides that, in cases of extreme gravity and urgency and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court may, at the request of the Commission, adopt such provisional measures as it deems