Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of November 29, 2007 Provisional Measures regarding Venezuela Matter of Guerrero-Gallucci and Martínez-Barrios HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of June 20, 2006 and its appendixes, whereby the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” o “the Tribunal”), pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” o “the American Convention”) and 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), a request for provisional measures, so that the State of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (hereinafter “the State” or “Venezuela”) adopt the measures necessary to “protect from [alleged] inminent violations the rights to life and to humane treatment of Ms. María del Rosario Guerrero-Gallucci and of Mr Adolfo Segundo Martínez-Barrios.” 2. The Order by the Inter-American Court dated July 4, 2006, whereby it decided: 1. To call upon the State to adopt, forthwith, such provisional measures as may be necessary to protect the rights to life and personal integrity of Ms. María del Rosario Guerrero-Gallucci and Mr. Adolfo Segundo Martínez-Barrios, taking into account the gravity of the situation and the special risk conditions. 2. To call upon the State to investigate the facts that prompted the adoption of these provisional measures and, if appropriate, to identify those responsible and impose on them the corresponding punishment. 3. To call upon the State to perform all relevant actions so that the measures of protection ordered herein are planned and implemented with the participation of the beneficiaries thereof or their representatives, in such a manner that said measures are executed diligently and effectively by properly trained and qualified personnel not belonging to the security bodies that have been denounced by the beneficiary. Additionally, the State must keep the beneficiaries informed of any progress made in the implementation of the aforementioned measures. 4. To call upon the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within seven days from the notification of this Order, about the measures it may have adopted in compliance therewith. 5. To call upon the beneficiaries of said measures or their representatives to submit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within five days from the notification of the State’s report, any comments they deem relevant. 6. To call upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within seven days from the notification of the State’s report, any comments it deems relevant. 7. To call upon the State, after submitting the report included in operative paragraph four, to continue to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on a