2 its Spanish acronym), a penitentiary holding inmates who had been sentenced by Judge Afiuni; c) Ms. Afiuni’s defense attorneys asked the competent authorities to establish the headquarters of the Directorate for Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP according to its Spanish acronym) as her place of detention in order for guarantees of her life and personal integrity to be provided.1The judge in charge of the preceding against her did not heed that request. Rather, he upheld the current place of detention, that being the INOF; d) On December 15, 2009, the Commission received communication signed by Ligia Bolívar Osuna, Jesús Ollavares, Carlos Nieto Palma, Héctor Faúndez Ledesma and Sandy Guevara Ojeda (hereinafter "the petitioners"), providing information on the facts and requesting the granting of precautionary measures. This communication was registered by the Inter-American Commission under the number MC-380-09. The petitioners argued that the motivation behind the facts described was to persecute the judge for an autonomous ruling and that the facts constitute "a serious threat to her life, her physical integrity, her freedom, and her personal safety." Therefore, they asked the Commission for, among other things, the life and physical integrity of Judge Afiuni to be guaranteed and for her to be kept separate from those convicted, particularly those inmates who could have been imprisoned as a result of one of her judicial rulings; e) On December 17, 2009, the Commission asked the State to submit information within 10 days on the relationship between the procedural situation of Ms. Afiuni and the reason for the arrest, the result of Ms. Afiuni’s request to be transferred to the DISIP, and the measures taken to prevent her from being subjected to reprisals from other detainees in the INOF: f) On December 28, 2009, the State informed the Commission of the following, among other things:  That the proceeding with regard to the accusations against Judge Afiuni was in the investigative phase and that the arrest had been ordered by the 50th Lower Oversight Court of the Caracas Metropolitan Area Criminal Judicial Circuit;  That on December 21, 2009, the Attorney General had carried out an ex officio visit to the INOF accompanied by a forensic doctor. The doctor did a series of examinations on the judge that verified her good physical condition, and  That on December 21, 2009, the 13th Deputy Prosecutor confirmed that the judge was "imprisoned and protected in a safe area of the aforementioned penitentiary:” g) On January 3, 2010, a group of inmates placed marking tape on their legs and heads as a sign of "war" or "riot" and planned to "burn the judge alive," in reference to Ms. Afiuni, along with three other detainees considered close to her. According to the petitioners, this group of individuals had intended to pour gasoline in the area where Ms. Afiuni was located and set it on fire. Judge Afiuni was transferred by the authorities to the area occupied by the officials in charge of guarding the prison in order to safeguard and preserve her life; 1 According to the representatives of Ms. Afiuni, in Venezuela, justice system officials who are provisionally deprived of liberty are held in places other than penitentiaries in order to protect their lives and personal integrity from possible reprisals from other inmates in whose proceedings they may have participated.