2 two administrative proceedings, and seven proceedings under the military jurisdiction have been started, all of which have been ordered by the National Defense Minister.” The many administrative and judicial proceedings referred to above have caused distress to Major Meléndez and his next of kin. This situation has “deprived M[ajor] Meléndez-Quijano not o[n]ly of the material resources which are due to him as a result of his work status as an active-duty officer, but also of essential time to be devoted to […] his family life.” In addition, Major Meléndez-Quijano has been recently diagnosed with a clinical condition of “overstress” at the Mental Health Clinic of the military unit where he has been assigned. In view of the foregoing, the representatives consider that “the actions which have been systematically taken against Major Meléndez by the civilian and military authorities have affected the life and personal integrity of Major Meléndez;” b) the measures to protect the members of the Meléndez-Quijano family have not been “even partially” adopted, even though the State “has the immediate responsibility for affording protection to Major Meléndez-Quijano and his next of kin.” With regard to the protection of Benjamín Cuéllar-Martínez, José Roberto Burgos-Viale, and Henry Paul Fino-Solórzano, they have been afforded protection by a personal security guard since the meeting held on August 27, 2007. Notwithstanding, the security guards assigned to protect the above-mentioned persons “have not been provided with transport means or radio communication equipment, nor have they been given food allowances, which have to be borne by the Human Rights Institute of Central America University [Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana, IDHUCA].” Protection measures “are still a matter over which the State […] takes unilateral decisions: sometimes alleging reasons relating to its domestic legal system and others, with the excuse of having limited financial or material resources;” c) “[t]he extreme slowness with which the authorities have acted […] regarding the adoption of provisional measures, as well as the exclusion of M[ajor] Meléndez-Quijano’s next of kin from the decision-making process regarding the design of such measures,” are evident as they “only sent a fax to IDHUCA containing the proposal on August 20, 2007.” The State agents refused to give a copy of the environment and risk report through representatives of the Program for the Protection of Victims and Witnesses, though such report had been drawn “thanks to the cooperation of the Meléndez family and the confidence they deposited in the police officers and social workers who participated in it;” and d) the acts which put at risk the beneficiaries’ life and integrity have persisted. These have been the victims of such acts as verbal threats, harassment, and pursuits by suspicious vehicles. The threats “have been compounded by the investigation conducted by Intelligence Officers of the National Defense Ministry, including the Chief of the II (Intelligence) Unit of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces.” The beneficiaries have reported the license plate numbers to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic and to the PNC, but so far no information has been provided in regard thereto. On September 13, 2007 two police investigators went to the headquarters of IDHUCA and stated that they had been appointed the day before. 4. The communication of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received on October 26, 2007, wherein it pointed out, inter alia, that: