99 . 398. The Commission stated that the alleged victims made important economic efforts in trying to achieve justice at a domestic level and overcome the physical, moral, and professional consequences that facts of the present case caused them. It also indicated that “they have experimented psychological suffering, anguish, uncertainty, and alterations to their life caused by the fact that they cannot carry out their work assignments and by virtue of their submission to acts of persecution, harassment, and physical and moral attacks; the consequences, both personal and professional, of those acts,” for which it asked the Court to order payment of a compensation for non-pecuniary damages. 399. At the same time, the Commission asked the Court to order the State: a) to adopt measures to cease the violations, including all those necessary to avoid illegal restrictions or direct or indirect hindrances on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression analyzed in this case from continuing or being repeated. Venezuela must adopt reasonable measures to prevent individuals from illegitimately interfering with the exercise of freedom of expression. In this sense, the Sate shall punish all illegitimate actions that seek to silence expression. b) to carry out a fair and exhaustive investigation in order to prosecute and punish all the perpetrators and instigators of the facts object of the present case and make the result of those investigations public. c) to grant the victims, employees of RCTV access to official sources of information and allow them to cover news stories, that is, the exercise of the right to freedom of expression. Additionally […] that the State adopt measures destined to the moral and professional rehabilitation of the victims, in that sense, the Commission requests that the Court order, among others, the publication of the judgment eventually issued by the Tribunal in a newspaper with national circulation; and to make a public acknowledgment of the state’s responsibility for the damage caused and the violations occurred; d) to adopt, as a priority, the legislative, administrative, and any other measure necessary to avoid acts of both the State and individuals that could hinder the search, receipt, and imparting of information by social communicators and any associated personnel. e) to repair the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages that the behavior of the State’s bodies have caused to the victims; and f) to pay the costs and expenses incurred in by the victims and their representatives in the processing of the case both at a national level and those originated in the processing of the present case before the InterAmerican System. 400. The representatives did not present arguments on pecuniary damages. With regard to the non-pecuniary damages they mentioned that the alleged victims had to suffer the constant satire and public despise to which they were submitted by public authorities and the “supporters and partisans of the ruling party,” as well as the lack of a serious, diligent, and effective investigation by state authorities to determine what had happened and identify and punish those responsible, which has resulted in considerable infringements. Therefore, they asked that the Court order the compensation in equity for the non-pecuniary damages caused. 401. Additionally, the representatives asked the Court to Order the State to: a) Adopt the appropriate measures necessary to cease and prevent the acts of State officials and representatives, as well as from individuals, which may hinder the search, access, demonstration, and diffusion of information by social communicators and the media, in this case RCTV; thus guaranteeing full exercise of the freedom of expression in the Venezuelan society and the victims of the present case; b) Cease the governmental measures that imply an indirect restriction to the right to freedom of expression verified in the Application, such as: the speeches made by public officials exposing social communicatoris to attacks and threats from individual partisans of the government; the interventions in the broadcasts of RCTV; and the threats to annul or not renew RCTV’s concession, based on the independent editorial line and criticism of the government adopted by RCTV; c) Adopt appropriate measures that can cease and prevent acts that, in the task of searching, accessing, expressing, and diffusing information, affect the personal integrity of the victims in the present case; and to solve them in a timely and effective manner in those situations in which acts of State officials and representatives and individuals may affect personal integrity;