2 professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and the Universidad Central de Venezuela. The request filed with the Commission came from the Human Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos) of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, the Venezuelan Programme for Human Rights Education-Action (Programa Venezolano de EducaciónAcción en Derechos Humanos - PROVEA), the Vicariate of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Caracas, the Jesuit Refugee Service, the Community Learning Centers (Centros Comunitarios de Aprendizaje CECODAP), the Peace and Justice Support Network, assisted by Mr. Héctor Faúndez Ledesma; c) on Sunday, June 6, 2003, at 3:30 p.m., Mr. Carlos Nieto Palma was visited by three civilian intelligence agents (DISIP) from the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, who informed him that while they had the order to make a household visit, they did not have a court order to search his home. They went on to say, however, that as members of the government’s civilian intelligence agency (DISIP) they wanted to speak with him. Only one of the agents showed Mr. Nieto his credentials and identified himself as “Chief Rodríguez.” The police were at the door to his home for more than ten minutes. As they insisted on speaking with him inside, Mr. Nieto Palma relented and allowed them into his living room; d) the representatives stated that the police made it plain that that they were aware of the activities of Mr. Carlos Nieto Palma and of his family, and knew “intimate details of his private life.” Mr. Nieto Palma was questioned about his work as a human rights defender, the work he does in Venezuelan prisons, and whether he was acquainted with the political prisoners from Plaza Altamira, whether he had defended them and why. They also asked him to explain why he was receiving money from a foreign government to finance his nongovernmental organization “Una Ventana a la Libertad.” Throughout the questioning, Mr. Nieto Palma felt intimidated by the police agents’ repeated references to his nine-month-old nephew John Carmelo Laicono Nieto, “how pretty he was in the photographs, the climate of insecurity in Caracas, and the possibility that something untoward might happen to him;” e) at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 18, 2004, Mr. Carlos Nieto Palma received a summons to appear “immediately” at the Office of Prosecutor 27 for the Caracas Metropolitan Area. That same day, at 3:30 p.m., Mr. Nieto Palma appeared at the Prosecutor’s Office, in the company of attorneys Carlos Simón Bello and Alejandro Rodríguez. Prosecutor Antonio Rodríguez Landaeta was the person who spoke with him, and told him that he had been summoned as a witness, but did not indicate the case in question. The questioning to which he was subjected “seemed to suggest that Mr. Nieto Palma was accused of committing some crime.” The line of questioning centered around the funding of the nongovernmental organization “Una Ventana a la Libertad” and whether he was the attorney for the “Altamira rock throwers” [“los tira piedra de Altamira”], an expression the prosecutor used in reference to a number of leaders of the opposition of President Hugo Chávez Frías’ administration. These were people that Mr. Nieto