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6.
To reiterate to the State that it must allow the petitioners to participate in the
planning and implementation of the measures of protection and that, in general, it must
informed of progress regarding the measures decided by the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights.
7.
To call upon the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
about the measures it ha[d] adopted to comply with the Order by June 15, 2004, at the
latest.
.
8.
To ask the beneficiaries of the provisional measures or their representatives to
submit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within 15 days from when they
receive the report by the State, whatever comments they deem[ed] pertinent.
9.
To ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights, within 20 days of when they receive the report by the
State, whatever comments they deem[ed] pertinent.
10.
To order the State, in addition to the report referred to in operative paragraph
seven, to continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, every two
months, on the provisional measures adopted, and to call upon the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights to present its comments on these reports within six weeks
of receiving them. This Court also ask[ed] the beneficiaries of the provisional measures
or their representatives to continue submitting their comments on said reports within
four weeks of when they receive them.
[…]
6.
The July 9, 2004 brief in which the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”)
submitted to the Inter-American Court, pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American
Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American
Convention”), 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of
Procedure”) and 74 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission, a request for
expansion of provisional measures in the Luisiana Ríos et al. case, in favor of all the
journalists, management and other workers at Radio Caracas Televisión (hereinafter
“RCTV”) who are in its facilities or are associated with that journalistic endeavor. The
original brief with said request for expansion and its annexes was received by the
Secretariat of the Court on July 16, 2004.
7.
The grounds given by the Commission in its request for expansion of
provisional measures (supra Having Seen 6), summarized as follows:
a)
on June 3, 2004 the National Electoral Council announced that they
had sufficient signatures to hold a Presidential recall referendum, and this led
to a number of violent commotions in various points of downtown Caracas by
groups identifying themselves as followers of the President of the Republic.
These disturbances led to the death of one person, at least two persons
wounded, and attacks against the offices of the private media El Nacional, Así
es la Noticia, and RCTV. The Metropolitan Mayor’s Office was also attacked,
and several vehicles were set on fire;
b)
based on information supplied by the petitioners, a group of hooded
individuals met on June 3, 2004 in front of the head office of RCTV. Even
though there were two officers of the Dirección de los Servicios de
Inteligencia y Prevención (DISIP) nearby, they made no inquiry into the
presence of said group. The hooded individuals attacked the offices of RCTV
with stones and firearms, some of them high caliber ones, and aimed their
shots at those who looked out from the building that is the head office of
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