ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUGUST 26, 2002 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REGARDING THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA HELEN MACK CHANG ET AL. HAVING SEEN: 1. The August 9, 2002 brief and its appendices, in which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) filed before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”), pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and 74 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission, a request for provisional measures in favor of Mrs. Helen Mack Chang and the members of the Myrna Mack Foundation (hereinafter “MMF” or “the Foundation”). In said brief, the Commission requests that the Court order the Republic of Guatemala (hereinafter “the Guatemalan State”, “the State” or “Guatemala”) to: a. Immediately adopt effective security measures to ensure the life and personal safety of Helen Mack Chang and the members of the Myrna Mack Foundation. b. Coordinate protection measures [...] with agreement by the persons to be protected, so as to ensure the effectiveness and relevance of said measures. c. To adopt, as an essential component of the duty of protection, effective measures to investigate the facts that give rise to these measures, so as to identify and punish those responsible for said acts, in conformity with due process. d. Report to the [...] Court within a brief term on concrete and effective measures adopted to protect Helen Mack Chang and [the] members of the Myrna Mack Foundation [...] and, subsequently, to report to the Honorable Court every two months on the status of the provisional measures. 2. The Commission based its request for provisional measures on the following facts: a) that the Inter-American Commission “has verified with deep concern a sustained increase of threats and attacks against those who defend human rights in recent years [in Guatemala], that have significantly intensified during [2002, and according to] information received by the Commission, to date none of those responsible for said attacks have been prosecuted;” b) that during processing of the cases “for the extrajudicial execution of anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, [...] there have been a number of threats and