-3- (Permanent Secretariat of the National Commission for Human Rights) of the latter Ministry to step up the security afforded Mr. Luis Alberto RamírezHinostroza, providing him with adequate means of transportation. The foregoing request was made after considering how serious the situation had become on account of the latest attack effected against him and in compliance with the provisions by the Court; and e) Pursuant to the directions given on September 21, 2005 by the Chief of the División de la Policía Judicial (DIRINCRI) (Judicial Police Division), Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza and his family are given personal protection service by 2 commissioned officers and 6 non-commissioned officers of the Policía Nacional (National Police) divided in two groups with a 24-hour daily coverage, bearing firearms and a bullet-proof vest is worn whenever the protected party goes out. Its is furthermore reported that more personnel, vehicles, communications equipment, and a special helmet to be worn by the protected party have been requested, but no response thereto has been forthcoming. The proper authorities are taking steps to obtain protection measures in favor of the lawyer Carlos Rivera-Paz. 3. The brief of November 7, 2005, wherein Mr. Carlos Rivera-Paz, a beneficiary and the representative of the other beneficiaries of the instant measures, pointed out that the Executive Secretary of the Consejo Nacional de Derechos Humanos (National Council for Human Rights) of the Ministerio de Justicia (Ministry of Justice) informed him that Mr. Luis Alberto Ramírez-Hinostroza had desisted from the protection established in the provisional measures ordered by the Court. On such matter, Mr. Rivera-Paz commented that the aforementioned situation was “an unexpected event [, …] that but expresses the very delicate personal and family situation [Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza] is going through as a consequence of the four attacks against his life” and that the provisional measures cannot be suspended because one of the beneficiaries merely says so. 4. The brief of November 9, 2005 and its Appendixes, some of them forwarded on that same day and some others forwarded on November 15, 2005, wherein the State informed that Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza had communicated “his decision to waive the security protection the State had been providing” and prayed the Court to “give the Peruvian State directions as to what are the proper actions to be taken in the face of such situation.” The aforementioned Appendixes are among others: a) a copy of a note of November 3, 2005, addressed by Mr. RamírezHinostroza to the Minister of the Interior, wherein he stated that “because it was consistent with [his own] rights and urgent matters he had to see to outside the capital city and not having the need to continue with the personal and family protection Policía Nacional del Perú (National Police of Peru) staff had been providing him under provisions by the Court [...] and availing himself of rights granted in the Constitución Política del Perú (Political Constitution of Perú) and of his own free will he irrevocably DESIST[S] from the security and protection services that had been granted the undersigned and [his] family as from [November] 3, [20]05 AT 18:00 HOURS”; and b) three official notes addressed by the Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo Nacional de Derechos Humanos (Office of the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Human Rights) to the Secretaría Permanente de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (Permanent Secretariat of the