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watching her. Due to “[t]hese facts, caused her a grave fear,” she returned to her
work-place. She communicated with a next of kin for him to accompany her, and as
she left her work-place, she noticed that “the man was still outside” and he
photographed her with a cell phone. The following morning, when Ms. Rosendo left
her other job, “the person that had been watching her” the day before was outside
the house. Consequently, on November 17, 2009, Ms. Rosendo brought a complain
for the offense of threats, for which the prior investigation GRO/SC/125/2009 was
begun;
c)
On December 11, 2009, at approximately 6:20 pm, Ms. Rosendo went to pick
up her daughter Yenis Bernardino from the school where she studied and a few
meters before arriving, her daughter “left running with her backpack on her back,
crying and very upset,” because two men that had tried to take her away, had stolen
her cell phone. For this, the aforementioned inquiry incorporated the new criminal
facts against Ms. Rosendo and her daughter for the offense of threats, robbery,
minors or disabled persons abduction, and child abduction.
d)
On February 13, 2009, “in the framework of the disappearance of Raúl Lucas
Lucía and Manuel Ponce Flores, as well as of the aggressions committed against
Obtilia Eugenio, Ms. Rosendo informed her representatives “that she identified two
persons that were watching her and following her from her house to her work.” She
added that Ms. Rosendo “could recognize that one of the persons watching her [had]
been identifie[d] as an assistant of the Army.” The next of kin of Ms. Rosendo, who
are in another community, had manifested her that they fear for her life, because in
such place “information exists that members of the Army, which are connected with
other members of the community, are in Chilpancingo with the objective of following
her.”
5.
The arguments of the representatives to support their request for measures of
protection, among which they provided that:
a) “the facts are grave attempts against life, security, and tranquility of Valentina
[Rosendo Cantu] and her daughter” and occurred in a context of the re-activation of
the case of Ms. Rosendo before the Tribunal, “for which a well-founded fear exists
that reprisals may be taken against her or against her family,”
b)
Ms. Rosendo and her daughter do not have on a security measure that allows
them to be protected. As a result of the sexual violation and the work that she
initiated to denounce it on an internal and international level, Ms. Rosendo “was
obligated to radically change her life and to reside in the city of Chilpancingo, where
she does not have social networks of support.” Initially, they estimated that the
change of city was a measure to give her protection, nevertheless “[the] response
and [the] measures of protection towards her were slower” when provided by the
representatives, since Tlachinollan is located 4 and a half hours of distance by
vehicle from Chilpancingo;
c)
The facts suffered by Ms. Rosendo and her daughter are similar to those that
were denounced by the beneficiaries of the related provisional measures in the case
of Fernández Ortega et al., namely “following and the taking of photos by persons