3 6. The report of the State of Guatemala (hereinafter “the State” or “Guatemala”) of December 13, 2002, in which it submitted information regarding the death of Justo Victoriano Martínez Morales1 and indicated that: On [December 13, 2002,] at 11 a.m., JUSTO VICTORIANO MARTÍNEZ, a person benefiting from safety measures provided by the Government of Guatemala at the request of the […] Inter-American Court of Human Rights, died in the city of Huehuetenango. Justo Victoriano Martínez gave personal testimony in the Nicholas Chapman Blake case and, since then, at the request of the […] Court, he has been provided with the necessary measures of personal and perimetric security to safeguard his safety. The State also affirmed that: According to the medical report of the Private Specialized Medicine Hospital of the city of Huehuetenango, Mr. Martínez was interned on the […]12th of this month with clinical manifestations diagnosed as a HEPATIC COMA [and] at eleven a.m. [on December 13] he died as a result of HEPATIC CIRRHOSIS. 7. The communication of the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) of December 18, 2002, informing the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures that the time limit for presentation of their comments on the State’s report of November 13, 2002, had expired, and that they were therefore requested to forward the said comments. 8. The report of the State of January 10, 2003, in which it referred to the death of Justo Victoriano Martínez, one of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures, and requested that the corresponding measures of protection should be lifted, because “over the seven years during which these provisional measures were maintained, there were no incidents that demonstrated a real and imminent situation of danger for the life and safety of the beneficiary and his next of kin; consequently, in view of this fact, it is appropriate to indicate that the provisional measures have been prolonged excessively and without any justification […].” 9. The note of the Secretariat of January 14, 2003, in which it requested the State to submit a death certificate or official document recording the death of Justo Victoriano Martínez Morales, so that this information could be submitted to the InterAmerican Court at its next regular session. 10. The communication of the Secretariat of January 17, 2003, in which, on the instructions of the President, it requested the Inter-American Commission and the representatives of the beneficiaries of the measures to forward their comments on the State’s communication of January 10, 2003 (supra eighth having seen paragraph); and the Secretariat’s notes of February 3 and 10, 2003, in which it again requested the respective comments, which were not received. 11. The note of the representatives of the beneficiaries of the measures of February 19, 2003, in which they requested an extension for presentation of the comments requested in the preceding paragraph and the Secretariat’s note of the 1 In this Order, when reference is made to Justo Victoriano Martínez Morales or Justo Víctor Martínez Morales or Justo Víctor Morales Martínez, it should be understood that it is the same person, in accordance with the certificate issued by the Civil Registrar of the Municipality of Huehuetenango on February 27, 2003.