2 5. The note of March 2, 2011, in which, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat asked the State to submit specific information in its next report on the implementation of these measures, since it had not done so in its report of February 21, 2011 (supra having seen paragraph 4). 6. The brief and its attachment of March 16, 2011, in which the Commission asked for an expansion of the present provisional measures in favor of nine next of kin and six representatives of the beneficiaries. 7. The alleged facts upon which the Inter-American Commission based its request to expand the measures: a) On January 24, 2011, armed members of the federal police, in uniform, went to the home of the beneficiary, José Ángel Alvarado Favela, together with officials from the local office in Ciudad Juárez of the Attorney General’s Office. The police attempted to detain the said beneficiary because “he had filed an application for amparo in order to find José Ángel Alvarado Herrera, Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes,” which required him “to go to the said local office in order to provide information on the whereabouts of his next of kin.” Mr. Alvarado Favela expressed his fear of the uniformed officers and told them that it was the state officials who should provide information on his missing next of kin; b) On January 28, 2011, Mr. Alvarado Favela, accompanied by his representatives Luz Esthela Castro and Gabino Gómez, went to the Attorney General’s Office, having complied with the general requirements for access. Despite this, they were told that, in order to be allowed access, additional information was required together with photographs of Mr. Alvarado Favela. The latter and his representatives decided not to allow their photographs or their fingerprints to be taken and left the office; c) On January 29, 2011, federal police and officials from the Attorney General’s Office visited Mr. Alvarado Favela’s home again. On not finding him there, the officials proceeded to photograph his house and the surrounding areas; d) On January 29, 2011, Mr. Alvarado Favela received a call on his mobile phone during which a man told him: “We have your son and he is alive; we’re going to kill you and your children like dogs; you have 12 hours to leave your house and the city, otherwise we will kill everyone because you’ve been talking too much.” After this call, the Alvarado family left their homes and jobs and “[are] in hiding.” 8. The Commission’s arguments in support of its request to expand provisional measures, including: a) The next of kin for whom this expansion is requested are part of the same household as the current beneficiaries and, therefore, find themselves in the same situation of extreme gravity, urgency, and risk of irreparable harm; b) The said next of kin, mainly children, have been directly affected by “the extreme measures that the beneficiaries have had to adopt in order to safeguard their life and physical integrity” in the face of continued acts of intimidation and threats against them; c) From the language used in the threatening phone call, it is apparent that the aim is to silence those who are publicly denouncing the disappearance of the original beneficiaries and the alleged participation of military officials in these events, and to prevent the investigation from continuing; d) The representatives in whose favor an expansion of the present measures is being sought have played “an active role not only in the context of processing the provisional measures at the international level, but they have [also] continued to denounce the facts at the domestic level” and, in this regard, they “make written submissions” to various authorities and appear before them to