preliminary nature of said report, expressing that “it is a situation of [i]ntervention that is still in progress at the El Rodeo I and Rodeo II Capital Judicial Confinement Centers, caused by the refusal of a small group of violent inmates, who decline to lay down their weapons and collaborate with the State in the normalization of the situation.” 10. The brief of June 24, 2011, whereby the Commission informed, inter alia, that on June 21, 2011 it adopted precautionary measures “with the purpose of protecting the next of kin of the inmates of the El Rodeo prisons and any other groups of people who are gathered and protesting around said judicial confinement center, until the situation had been normalized.” 11. The note of the Secretariat of the Court of June 27, 2011, whereby following the instructions of a plenary of the Court, it asked the State to file a supplemental brief no later than July 4, 2011, in which it is to reference the actions adopted after June 22, 2011 regarding the El Rodeo I and El Rodeo II Capital Judicial Confinement Centers. In said report, it shall specifically provide the following information: a) b) c) d) e) updated numbers of all the people that are currently detained at the El Rodeo I and El Rodeo II Capital Judicial Confinement Centers, with a precise indication of the juridical nature of their imprisonment; names of the injured beneficiaries, the medical attention granted, as well as the conditions and the place where they are currently located; name of the deceased beneficiaries; names of the beneficiaries that were transferred to other prisons with a precise indication of the place and conditions in which they are currently imprisoned, and the coordination and result of the meetings carried out with both national governmental authorities and the next of kin and representatives of the inmates. 12. The brief of July 4, 2011 whereby the State of Venezuela filed a supplemental report, in response to the note of the Secretariat of June 27, 2011 (supra Having Seen 11), in which it reiterated that the same “does not have a final nature, since the situation of the aforementioned Rodeo I and II Capital Judicial Confinement Centers […] is still in course” given the fact that on June 28, 2011 “the violent inmates that kept the rest of the population of [El] Rodeo II inmates incomunicado in the area named ‘La Torre’ are still entrenched.” The State also submitted part of the information requested (supra Having Seen 11). 13. The communications of July 2 and 5, 2011, whereby Mr. Humberto Prado, in his status of beneficiary of the present provisional measures, submitted information that was circulating on the Internet, in addition to his claim filed before the Public Prosecutor’s Office on June 21, 2011. CONSIDERING THAT: 1. Venezuela has been a State Party to the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter, the “American Convention” or “the Convention”) since August 9, 1977, and pursuant to Article 62 of the Convention, it accepted the binding jurisdiction of the Court on June 24, 1981. 2. Article 63(2) of the American Convention provides that, “[i]n cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court shall adopt such provisional measures as it deems pertinent in matters it has under consideration. With respect to a case not yet submitted to the Court, it may act at the request of the Commission.” 3

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