of those responsible, in accordance with due process, is the best way to combat impunity and ensure the security, safety and lives of the beneficiaries of such measures. 12. That the Court has examined the facts and circumstances that justified the order of the President of October 25, 2001 (supra Having Seen 3), and considers that “a situation of extreme gravity and urgency” subsists that justifies maintaining the measures adopted in favor of the members of the PRODH Center and the lawyers, Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez, and expanding them, in accordance with the provisions of Article 63(2) of the American Convention, in order to protect Eusebio Ochoa López and Irene Alicia Plácido Evangelista, and also Carmen, Jesús, Luz María, Eusebio, Guadalupe, Ismael, Elia, Estela, Roberto, Juan Carlos, Ignacio and Agustín, all of them Ochoa y Plácido. THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To ratify all the provisions of the order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of October 25, 2001. 2. To call on the State to maintain all measures necessary to protect the lives and safety of the members of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center and the lawyers, Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez. 3. To call on the State to expand immediately the measures necessary to protect the lives and safety of Eusebio Ochoa López and Irene Alicia Plácido Evangelista, the parents of Digna Ochoa y Plácido, and her siblings, Carmen, Jesús, Luz María, Eusebio, Guadalupe, Ismael, Elia, Estela, Roberto, Juan Carlos, Ignacio and Agustín, all of them Ochoa y Plácido. 4. To call on the State to investigate the facts that gave rise to the adoption of these provisional measures in order to identify those responsible and impose the corresponding sanctions. 5. To call on the State to allow the beneficiaries to participate fully in the planning and implementation of the protection measures. 6. To call on the State to continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about the provisional measure adopted, every two months from the date of notification of this order. 63(1) American Convention on Human Rights). Judgment of May 25, 2001. Series C. No. 76, para. 200 and Durand and Ugarte case. Judgment of August 16, 2000. Series C No. 68, para. 123.

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