3 obvious that this is an urgent situation in view of the imminent return of Helen Mack Chang to Guatemala, and d) the dangerous situation also affects the other officials of the Myrna Mack Foundation, who “in their activities have not only denounced structural problems that affect the administration of justice in Guatemala, but have specifically struggled to shred the cloak of impunity covering the extrajudicial execution of anthropologist Myrna Mack.” 4. The August 14, 2002 Order of the President of the Court, in which he decided: 1. To order the State to adopt, without delay, whatever measures are required to protect the life and safety of Helen Mack Chang and of the members of the Myrna Mack Foundation (MMF). 2. To order the State to allow the applicants to participate in planning and implementation of the measures and that, in general, it keep them informed 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 the instant measures, with the aim of discovering and punishing those responsible. 4. To order the State to report to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on measures adopted to comply with the instant Order, no later than August 22, 2002. 5. To order the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights whatever observations it deems appropriate, within one week of receiving the report submitted by the State, 5. The brief filed by the State of Guatemala on August 23, 2002, stating that on August 21, 2002 a meeting was held by government officials with Helen Mack Chang, among other persons, and an agreement was reached regarding implementation of the protection measures ordered by the Court, and also that: 1. The State shares the concern of the [...] Court, for which reason since the moment it received notice of the Order it began, without delay, to coordinate with the competent authorities the protection measures to safeguard the life and safety of Helen Beatriz Mack Chang and the members of the Foundation that she chairs. 2. The beneficiaries personally told the authorities how they wanted the protection measures to be implemented, and their effective application will be monitored together with them. 3. The request to investigate the facts that gave rise to the instant measures was forwarded to the Ministry of the Interior and to the National Civil Police. […] 6. The brief filed by the Inter-American Commission on August 26, 2002, in which it stated that on August 23 of that same year, Luis Roberto Romero Rivera, the attorney handling the Myrna Mack case, suffered a series of grave acts of harassment. Among them, the Commission mentioned two threatening phone calls, in one of which he was explicitly told to “stop telling or he would suffer the consequences,” as well as three gunshots against his home, five minutes after the second phone call mentioned above. The Inter-American Commission also stated that on August 21, 2002, it met with the officials of COPREDEH and the National Civil Police to put into effect the protection measures against Helen Mack Chang and other members of the Myrna Mack Foundation. The Commission stated that on that