4 17. The oral arguments of the Commission, made at the aforementioned public hearing, summarized as follows: a) “Luis Uzcátegui, who lives in […] the State of Falcón, is the brother of Néstor José Uzcátegui, murdered on January 1, 2001 by alleged parapolice groups. Since his brother’s murder, Luis Uzcátegui systematically sought justice, struggled against impunity and in the process called a meeting of various next of kin of the victims [...] in the State of Falcón. Due to this he began to be persecuted, harassed [...] has been detained several times, has been beaten several times [...], his homes have been raided on multiple occasions, and more recently [...] he was even accused by the Commander of the Armed Police Forces of the State of Falcón, for revilement and defamation [...].” b) “After the provisional measures, these acts of harassment and intimidation have intensified, [and] [...] after the order of the [...] Court, Luis Uzcátegui Jiménez has not been contacted [...] by the authorities of the Venezuelan State, with the aim of complying with that order [...].” “The Venezuelan State is in open contempt of the provisional measures in favor of Mr. Uzcátegui, [...] [and furthermore] when the interested person himself went to post number 42 of the National Guard of the Security Corps, [...] the Commander of that post humiliated him and arrested him all day in the courtyard of the military facilities [...].” c) The Venezuelan Government, in the information it has sent to the Court, reported that it “has commissioned for the protection of Mr. Uzcátegui the police corps that he has denounced as those persecuting him and as the authors of the acts of harassment and intimidation. [...] which “is [...] unacceptable and unjustifiable.” d) “[T]he Venezuelan State is justifying its non-compliance with the measures on the basis of the police reports they have filed on Luis Uzcátegui, who in turn is the brother of a victim of the parapolice groups in the State of Falcón, and who has filed a number of claims against the police. Luis Uzcátegui’s life is definitely in danger” and he is suffering a violation of the presumption of innocence and of due process. e) Due to “the repetitive acts of intimidation and attacks against him and in view of the obvious will to be in contempt of the provisional orders issued in his favor [...]. Mr. Uzcátegui has been forced to live a wandering life, seeking refuge with his next of kin outside the State of Falcon and seeking on his own a safe place to go to.” f) The Commission submits the proposal that first of all “due to absolute non-compliance by the Venezuelan State and the risk to the life and personal safety of Luis Uzcátegui […] [,] until his protection is guaranteed in the State of Falcón, where he has his permanent residence, the Venezuelan State immediately grant him means of subsistence in the State of Carabobo in the city of Valencia;” secondly, that “through his transfer via an administrative definition in Venezuelan legislation, which is the seconding of services of public officials,” he be given “a job with similar characteristics to [his] job, as assistant to the Legislative Commission in said State;” third, “the Venezuelan State must organize and provide and guarantee provision of psychological care as required by Luis Uzc��tegui”, and fourth, “to carry out [...] the investigation and punishment of those responsible, by complying with the

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