Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights* of February 6, 2008 Provisional Measures regarding Mexico Matter of Pilar Noriega García et al. HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order issued by the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) on October 25, 2001, and the Orders issued by the Court on November 30, 2001, on April 20, 2004, on June 29, 2005 and on November 24, 2005. By means of the latter, the Court decided: 1. To request the State to keep the measures necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Pilar Noriega-García, Bárbara Zamora-López, Leonel RiveroRodríguez, María de los Ángeles Espinosa-Sánchez, Augusto César Sandino RiveroEspinosa, Luisa Amanda Rivero-Espinosa, María Katherina Rivero-Espinosa, Eusebio Ochoa-López and Irene Alicia Plácido-Evangelista, and of Carmen, Jesús, Luz María, Eusebio, Guadalupe, Ismael, Elia, Estela, Roberto, Juan Carlos, Ignacio y Agustín, all of them Ochoa y Plácido. 2. To request the State to continue the investigation of the facts that gave rise to the above-mentioned provisional measures in order to identify the responsible parties and to impose the pertinent punishment. […] 2. The communication of the Inter-American Commission of August 22, 2007, in response to the Court’s request for information regarding the procedural status of the instant case before said body, by means of which it informed that “the petition was assigned number 12,229 ‘Digna Ochoa et al.’ and it is in the admissibility stage.” 3. The communication of the Secretariat of the Inter-American Court of August 23, 2007, by means of which the Court requested the representatives and the Commission to submit detailed and updated information on the persistence of the situation of extreme gravity and urgency before the Court, and the need to avoid irreparable damage regarding each of the beneficiaries of these provisional measures. 4. Reports 24th to 36th of the United Mexican States (hereinafter, “the State” or “Mexico”) submitted between December 19, 2005, and December 18, 2007, as well as other additional briefs, by means of which the State informed on the protection measures adopted with regard to the beneficiaries and it referred to the investigation of the facts which gave rise to the adoption of the provisional measures. As to the