ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF FEBRUARY 21, 2003∗ PROVISIONAL MEASURES LILIANA ORTEGA ET AL. V. VENEZUELA HAVING SEEN: 1. The November 27, 2002 Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court””) with respect to the Provisional Measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) in favor of Liliana Ortega, Yris Medina Cova, Hilda Páez (Gilda Páez),1 Maritza Romero, Aura Liscano (Lizcano),2 Alicia de González, and Carmen Alicia Mendoza, in which it decided: 1. To order the State to adopt, without delay, all necessary measures to protect the life and the right to humane treatment of Liliana Ortega, Yris Medina Cova, Hilda Páez (Gilda Páez), Maritza Romero, Aura Liscano (Lizcano), Alicia de González, and Carmen Alicia Mendoza, all of whom are members of the non-governmental organization Comité de Familiares de Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero-Marzo de 1989 (COFAVIC). 2. To order the State to allow the applicants to participate in planning and implementation of the protection measures and, in general, to inform them 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. […] 2. The December 12, 2002 brief by the Venezuelan State (hereinafter “the State” or “Venezuela”) in which it submitted its first Report on “compliance with the November 27 [2002] Order of [the] Court” in favor of Liliana Ortega et al. and it reported that it had sent briefs to the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and to the Office of the Ombudsperson, requesting that they “issue orders as appropriate to comply with the Provisional Measures ” and that the “Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, [...] report[ed] that Public Prosecutor 44 of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Judiciary Circuit of the ∗ Judges Máximo Pacheco Gómez and Carlos Vicente de Roux Rengifo informed the Court that, for reasons of force majeure, they would be unable to attend the February 17, 2003 public hearing, for which reason they did not participate in the deliberation and signing of the instant Order. 1 The request for Provisional Measures filed by the Inter-American Commission refers indistinctly Mrs. Páez as Hilda or Gilda. 2 The request for Provisional Measures filed by the Inter-American Commission refers indistinctly to Aura Liscano or Lizcano.