ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF DECEMBER 2, 2003 * PROVISIONAL MEASURES LUISIANA RÍOS IN THE MATTER OF VENEZUELA HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) of November 27, 2002, on the provisional measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) in favor of Luisiana Ríos, Armando Amaya, Antonio José Monroy, Laura Castellanos and Argenis Uribe, in which it decided: 1. To order the State to adopt forthwith all necessary measures to protect the life and safety of Luisiana Ríos, Armando Amaya, Antonio José Monroy, Laura Castellanos and Argenis Uribe, employees of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV). 2. To order the State to allow the petitioners to participate in the planning and implementation of the protection measures and, in general, to inform them of progress regarding the measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 3. To order the State to investigate the facts stated in the complaint that gave rise to these measures in order to discover and punish those responsible. […] 6. To order the State, subsequent to its first report [December 12, 2002], to continue reporting to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, every two months, on the provisional measures adopted, and to order the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its observations to the said reports with six weeks of receiving them. 2. The first report of the State of Venezuela (hereinafter “the State” or “Venezuela”) of December 12, 2002, and its attachments, in which it referred to “compliance with the Order of November 27, [2002], issued by [the] Court” in favor of Luisiana Ríos, Armando Amaya, Antonio José Monroy, Laura Castellanos and Argenis Uribe. In this respect, it advised that it had sent communications to the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, the Office of the Attorney General (Ministerio Público) and the Office of the Ombudsman, requesting them “to order all necessary measures to comply with the [...] provisional measures.” It also indicated that the “Attorney General [...] [had] advise[d] that he had assigned the 2nd and 74th prosecutors of the Office of the Attorney General, both of the Judicial District of the metropolitan area of Caracas” to comply with the measure contained in the third operative paragraph of the Order issued by the Court in the instant case (supra first having seen paragraph). 3. The brief of December 20, 2002, and its attachment, in which the InterAmerican Commission presented its comments on the first report of the State (supra second having seen paragraph). In this respect, it indicated that “it consider[ed] it * Judge Hernán Salgado Pesantes advised the Court that, owing to circumstances beyond his control, he would be unable to attend the deliberation and signature of this Order.