a) on October 19, 2001, Digna Ochoa was assassinated. This professional was attacked by one or more unidentified persons in the office of her colleague Pilar Noriega García in the Colonia Roma district in Mexico City. Digna Ochoa’s body “had three wounds and a gun shot in the head”, the latter, from the so-called “golpe de mina” (mine blast effect) since the shot was fired from no more than 2 centimeters from the head; b) a message containing a specific threat against the members of the PRODH Center was found next to the victim’s body; c) various Mexican authorities, including the Federal District Attorney General stated publicly that the extrajudicial execution of the lawyer was a reprisal for her professional activities in defense of human rights. Digna Ochoa performed this work in direct and close collaboration with the lawyers, Bárbara Zamora López, Pilar Noriega García and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez. The Commission also indicated that: a) the facts show that the life and personal safety of the members of the PRODH Center and the lawyers, Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez, are in grave and imminent danger; b) the State is responsible for adopting the necessary measures to ensure the safety of all its citizens and, in particular those persons dedicated to the defense and promotion of human rights; these measures include investigating the origin of threats and harassment; and c) there is evident danger for the members of the PRODH Center, owing to the specific, direct threat made on October 19, 2001; furthermore, the situation of three of the professionals identified in this request is of great concern because they defended cases together with Digna Ochoa and the Commission has been informed that these professionals have received threats in the past. 2. The order of the President of the Court of October 25, 2001, in consultation with the other judges of the Court, in which he decided: 1. To call on the State to adopt, without delay, all necessary measures to protect the life and safety of the members of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center and the lawyers, Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez. 2. To call on the State to allow the petitioners to participate in the planning and implementation of the measures and, in general, to keep them informed about progress in the measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 3. To call on the State to investigate the facts denounced that gave rise to these measures in order to identify those responsible and punish them. 4. To call on the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about the measures that it has adopted in compliance with this order, within 10 days of receiving notification of the order.