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e)
On December 12, 2002, the 24th prosecutor at the national level
assigned to the case had a telephone conversation with Liliana Ortega, “in
order to arrange her appearance before this Office to conduct an interview so
that she could explain the reasons for the provisional measures decided by
the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, because, it was presumed they
were due to new facts.” This prosecutor indicated that Liliana Ortega refused
to attend because she did not consider it necessary and she also stated that
she could “on no account travel through the center of Caracas because her
life was in danger”;
f)
“On December 16, 2002, the 24th prosecutor at the national level
assigned to the case forwarded an official letter to the Director of COFAVIC,
requesting detailed information on the new events that had been reported
before the inter-American system. He received a reply on January 20, 2003,
in a communication stating that on January 6, 2003, Hilda (Gilda) Páez,
President of COFAVIC, had delivered personally a document with 34 pages, as
an attachment, to the Office of the Attorney General, and it had been
stamped by the General Secretariat Department, Records Unit. In this
communication, Liliana Ortega express[ed] her appreciation for the
prosecutor’s interest in requesting information in the case”; and
g)
“[...The Commission’s] intention is to find a prompt, adequate,
convenient and necessary solution planned jointly by Liliana Ortega, the
COFAVIC personnel, and the representatives of the Venezuelan State and the
Government for [...] reasonable and fair compliance with the [...]
precautionary measures; and to continue compliance with the precautionary
measures, evidently, incorporate the provisional measures ordered by [the
Court] into them.”
18.
The documents presented by the Commission during the public hearing held
on February 17, 2003 (supra fourteenth having seen paragraph), which consisted in
five folios with photographs of posters and graffiti put on display by “Government
supporters” in different parts of Caracas, Venezuela.
19.
The documents presented by the State during the public hearing on February
17, 2003 (supra fourteenth having seen paragraph), that consisted in “[d]ocuments
relating to the measures taken by the prosecutors appointed to investigate the case
and the actions of the Venezuelan Ministry of the Interior and Justice, related to the
Liliana Ortega et al. case.”.
20.
The Order of the Court of February 21, 2003, in which it decided:
1.
To declare that the State ha[d] not implemented effectively the provisional
measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its Order of
November 27, 2002.
2.
To reiterate to the State the requirement that it adopt forthwith all necessary
measures to protected the lives and safety of Liliana Ortega, Yris Medina Cova, Hilda
Páez[ Gilda Páez], Maritza Romero, Aura Liscano [Lizcano], Alicia de González and
Carmen Alicia Mendoza.
3.
To reiterate to the State the requirement that it allow the petitioners to take
part in the planning and implementation of the measures of protection and that, in
general, it keep them informed about progress in the measures decided by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights.
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