-6- h) On November 14, 2005 when the oral proceedings resumed before the Segunda Sala Penal de Huancayo (Second Criminal Chamber at Huancayo), Mr. Luis Alberto Ramírez-Hinostroza appeared with a new lawyer who is not a member of the Instituto de Defensa Legal (Institute for Legal Defense), for which reason such Institute has been de facto replaced in the defense in the criminal actions proceeding against General Luis Pérez Documet; and i) request the Inter-American Court that the provisional measures in favor of Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza and his family be maintained, in view of the latent risk at which his life and physical integrity are “more so right now, when the legal proceedings against Pérez Documet, to whom responsibility for the attacks to the detriment of Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza is attributed, are being carried on.” 8. The notes of November 22, 2005, by means of which the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, granted the Commission a delay up to November 28, 2005 to file its observations on the possible lifting of the provisional measures, noted that the State had not produced the original of the letter wherein Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza desisted, and requested as well that Mr. Carlos Rivera-Paz and the other representatives, no later that November 24, 2005, clearly indicate the following: a) whether they considered that the provisional measures regarding Mr. Carlos Rivera-Paz could be lifted; b) whether they continued to represent Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza, his wife and daughters before the Court in the matter of these measures; and c) whether they had held meetings or maintained communications with Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza after he would have signed the document wherein it is stated that he expresses to the Minister holding the Portfolio of the Interior that he irrevocably desists from the security and protection services. 9 The brief of November 24 2005, whereby Mr. Carlos Rivera-Paz, in response to the requests by the President in the note of November 22, 2005 (supra Having Seen clause Number 8), pointed out the following: a) the provisional measures in his benefit must continue for some time, since “by the nature of [his] work” the situation of risk has not disappeared. The provisional measures in favor of Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza must continue; b) the Instituto de Defensa Legal (Institute for Legal Defense) no longer represents Mr. Luis Alberto Ramírez-Hinostroza and his family before the Court, as a consequence of the de facto replacement (supra Having Seen clause Number 7.h); and c) to date, he has not met with Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza. He has only had a brief telephone conversation on November 18, 2005 in the course of which the aforesaid party informed him about a telephone call he had received from an officer of the Inter-American Commission.