8 21. That “the prima facie standard of evidence in one case and the reliance on presumptions when faced with a request for protection have led this [...] Court to order measures on a number of occasions" 2; but, in order to expand the measures, the proven situation of extreme gravity and urgency and necessary to prevent irreparable damage must be directly linked to the events that triggered the ordering of the provisional measures in the case at hand, so the request must be duly grounded (supra Having Seen clause No. 3, operating paragraph No. 5 of the Order of the Court of July 6, 2006). 22. That, after analyzing the argument presented by the representatives, the Court deems that there are no compelling reasons that warrant an expansion of these provisional measures in favor of Cristian Gamín, Diego Álvarez, Luis Alberto Alcaína and Mauricio Agüero. 23. That, with regard to the request for expansion of measures in favor of Iván Eladio Torres, pursuant to Considering clause No. 4 of the Order of July 6, 2006, the Court ordered that “such request [was] not admissible as the matter is part of a case being heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding his forced disappearance.” NOW THEREFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS in exercise of the powers conferred upon it under Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Articles 25 and 29 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, DECLARES, 1. That the provisional measures adopted through the Order of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights of July 6, 2006 regarding Walter Mansilla have become futile as he has died, pursuant to Considering clauses No. 10 and 11 of this Order. AND DECIDES: 1. To insist that the Argentinean State maintains the measures adopted and adopts all such measures as are necessary to protect the rights to life and to physical integrity of María Leontina Millacura Llaipén, Marcos and Valeria Torres, Juan Pablo Caba, Gerardo Colín, Patricio Oliva, Tamara Bolívar, Miguel Ángel Sánchez, Silvia de los Santos, Verónica Heredia, and Viviana and Sonia Hayes, as well as of the granddaughters of María Leontina Millacura-Llaipén (daughters of Marcos and Valeria Torres), of Mrs Marcela Torres (“the wife of 2 Cf. Matter of Adrián Meléndez-Quijano et al., Provisional Measures regarding El Salvador, Order of March 24, 2007, Considering clause No. 9; Matter of Gloria Giralt de Garcia Prieto et al, Provisional Measures regarding El Salvador, Order of September 26, 2006, Considering clause No. 10, Case of 19 Tradesmen (Sandra Belinda, Montero Fuentes and next of kin, Salomón Flores and next of kin, Luis José Pundor Quinteros and next of kin, Ana Diva Quintero Pundor and next of kin), Provisional Measures regarding Colombia, Order of July 4, 2006, Considering clause No. 4.

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