ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUGUST 21, 2013 PROVISIONAL MEASURES WITH REGARD TO EL SALVADOR MATTER OF MELÉNDEZ QUIJANO ET AL. HAVING SEEN: 1. The Orders of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter also “the InterAmerican Court” or “the Court”) issued on May 12 and November 26, 2007, and February 2, 2010. In the latter, the Court decided: 1. To lift the provisional measures in favor of the beneficiaries José Roberto Burgos Viale and Eurípides Manuel Meléndez Quijano 2. To require the State to maintain and adopt all necessary measures to protect the rights to life and to personal integrity of Adrián Meléndez Quijano, Marina Elizabeth García de Meléndez, Andrea Elizabeth Meléndez García, Estefani Mercedes Meléndez García, Pamela Michelle Meléndez García, Adriana María Meléndez García, Gloria Tránsito Quijano widow of Meléndez, Sandra Ivette Meléndez Quijano, Roxana Jacqueline Mejía Torres, Manuel Alejandro Meléndez Mejía, Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez and Henry Paul Fino Solórzano 3. To require the State to continue implementing the provisional measures mutually agreed with the beneficiaries of the measures or their representatives to ensure the effective protection of their rights and pursuant to considering paragraph 16 of th[e] Order. 4. To reiterate to the State that it should continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights every two months on the provisional measures adopted, as of notification of [the] Order, pursuant to [its] considering paragraph 15 […], and to require the beneficiaries of these measures or their representatives to present their observations within four weeks of notification of the State’s reports, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its observations on these State reports within six weeks of receiving them. 2. The briefs of May 27 and October 19, 2010, March 16 and October 18, 2011, March 5 and September 18, 2012, and May 20, 2013, in which the State of El Salvador (hereinafter “El Salvador” or “the State”) presented information on the implementation of the provisional measures, and requested that “the provisional measures in favor of the beneficiaries be lifted.” 3. The briefs of June 30 and November 12, 2010, April 28 and November 21, 2011, April 26, June 20, July 26, August 23 and October 18, 2012, and April 15, 2013, in which