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investigation stage.” “There have been no significant occurrences in such
investigation; there are no suspects or new investigation procedures, the
beneficiaries have not been kept informed about the progress made in the
investigation or summoned to the Prosecutor’s Office for any purpose
whatsoever;”[…]
b)
the ruling of Court No. 42 was not in compliance with the order of the
Inter-American Court and the notices delivered to the beneficiaries are
unrelated to the protection prescribed in the Court’s orders;
c)
journalist Liliana Velásquez has received no form of police protection at
all. Colomina is still under the protection of the Municipality of Chacao, which
is a limited form of protection given the unavailability of human and economic
resources in said Municipality, and
d)
“the State has failed to comply with its obligation to effectively
implement the measures to protect the freedom of expression of [the
beneficiaries].” For instance, “the Minister of Defense described her as an
‘alien,’ the National Assembly requested the Office of the Attorney General to
initiate the procedure for revoking her Venezuelan nationality, the Minister of
Information made a telephone call to her radio show, while she was on the
air, demanding that she let him directly say what he needed to say to her on
the air [and] the media [have] reported that her [television] show will be
cancelled due to pressure from the government.”
6.
The February 28, 2005 observations submitted by the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Commission” or “the Inter-American
Commission”), whereby the Commission noted, inter alia, that the protection and
investigation measures do not meet the standard set by the Court, that they are
exactly the same as noted on previous reports and which the Court has considered
ineffective for the protection of the life, personal integrity and freedom of expression
of the beneficiaries.
7.
The March 11, 2005 communication from the representatives, and the
appendixes thereto, whereby they argued, inter alia, that the top executive officer of
the “Televen” television channel informed Colomina “of the channel’s Board of
Directors��� decision to let her go and cancel her show,” given that “the pressure that
several Government ministers had exerted for over one year had become intolerable
as far as the channel’s operation was concerned, which is why it was impossible to
keep ‘La Entrevista,’ the show that Marta Colomina had hosted with the assistance of
producer Liliana Velásquez for over nine years, on the air.”
8.
The State’s brief of May 2, 2005, whereby it provided information on the
proposal for the creation of a “Special Team” to coordinate and supervise compliance
with the provisional and precautionary measures ordered by the Court and the InterAmerican Commission.
9.
The State’s report of May 25, 2005 –filed after being granted two deadline
extensions– wherein it stated, inter alia, that:
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