ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF SEPTEMBER 19, 1997 PROVISIONAL MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF COLOMBIA CABALLERO DELGADO AND SANTANA CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”) of April 16, 1997, in which it decided: 1. To request the State of Colombia to adopt, forthwith, such measures as may be necessary to protect the lives and physical integrity of Gonzalo Arias-Alturo, Javier Páez, Guillermo Guerrero Zambrano, Elida González-Vergel and María Nodelia Parra, and to prevent them from suffering irreparable damage, in strict compliance with the obligation to respect and guarantee the human rights, which it undertook under Article 1(1) of the Convention. 2. To request the State of Colombia that it investigate the acts of intimidation to which the persons mentioned in the preceding operative paragraph were subjected and to punish those responsible. 2. The June 16, 1997, brief presented by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission”) to the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) in which it submitted a copy of a letter from the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the contents of which the Commission adopted as its own. In its brief, the Commission requested the Court to call upon the State of Colombia (hereinafter “the State”) to submit a report regarding the alleged situation of risk that threatens the life, security and personal integrity of Ms. María Nodelia Parra due to the fact that the security measures taken on her behalf “have been gradually cut back to the point of leaving her practically unprotected”. The brief reiterated the urgency to establish measures that guarantee the life and personal integrity of Ms. Parra. 3. The letter sent to the Inter-American Commission by the Colombian Commission of Jurists, in which it described the alleged “dismantling” of the protection plan alluded to by the Commission in the above-cited brief. According to this document, one of the guards assigned for the security of Ms. Parra has been withdrawn, she has been informed that she must pay for the fuel of the vehicle assigned to her and the guards assigned to accompany her were absent on two occasions. 4. The document of June 17, 1997, by which the Secretariat, following the instructions of the President, requested the observations of the State to the Commission’s petition, “as well as [the submission of] the first report of the Government in the matter of the provisional measures adopted by the Tribunal in this case.”