Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights* of January 27, 2007 Provisional Measures regarding El Salvador Expansion of Provisional Measures in favor of Ricardo Alberto Iglesias Herrera, in relation to the Provisional Measures in favor of Gloria Giralt de Garcia-Prieto et al. Matter of Gloria Giralt de Garcia-Prieto et al. HAVING SEEN: 1. The written brief containing pleadings, motions, and evidence presented on May 26, 2006 by the Center for Justice and International Law and the Human Rights Institute of the “José Simeón Cañas” Central American University, representatives of the alleged victims (hereinafter “the representatives”) in the case of García Prieto et al, according to which several witnesses and experts were offered to provide oral and expert evidence, including among them Mr. Ricardo Alberto Iglesias Herrera, who was proposed as an expert witness. 2. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Tribunal”) of September 26, 2006, which required the Republic of El Salvador (hereinafter “El Salvador” or “the State”) to immediately adopt the measures necessary to protect the right to life and to personal integrity of Gloria Giralt de García Prieto, José Mauricio García Prieto Hirlemann, María de los Ángeles García Prieto de Charur, José Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez, Matilde Guadalupe Hernández de Espinoza, and José Roberto Burgos Viale. 3. The communication from the representatives dated November 29, 2006 reporting that Mr. Ricardo Alberto Iglesias Herrera, “who had been [offered] by this representation as an expert witness in the [present] case[,] experienced an attack against his life and personal integrity”. The representatives stated that the event occurred on November 5, 2006 at approximately 17:45, in the neighborhood of Santa Elena, municipality of Antiguo Cuscatlán, when Mr. Iglesias Herrera was driving his car with several passengers, including three young girls. According to these facts, an unknown subject driving a white, recentmodel, four-wheel-drive vehicle with polarized windows, passed the car being driven by Mr. Iglesias Herrera in the right lane, tried to intercept it, and pulled in front of his vehicle in the left lane in an attempt to block his way. At first, Mr. Iglesias Herrera was able to avoid the vehicle. However, the subject driving the unknown vehicle repeated the maneuver a second time, and this time was able to make Mr. Iglesias Herrera stop his car. Then, the unknown subject got out of his vehicle with a handgun in his hand, shot several times at the ground, and then two more times directly at the occupants of the vehicle driven by Mr. Iglesias * Judge Diego García-Sayán excused himself from participating in the adoption and signing of the present provisional measures.