23 d) The organizations CEDEHM, COSYDDHAC, and the Center for Human Rights of Paso del Norte provide assistance and representation in cases of “torture, forced disappearance, and home invasion on the part of police and the military,” which would place their members in a constant situation of greater vulnerability and higher risk. They added that several of the representatives reside in Ciudad Juárez “where federal police and military officials have conducted several visits to intimidate them.” e) After the international complaint was filed in the Alvarado case, two events occurred on the grounds of CEDEHM and the Center of Paso del Norte “that have not been investigated.” In this regard, the representatives indicated that the CEDEHM locations in Chihuahua “were raided, several electronic devices were seized, and one office window was broken.” Furthermore, they noted that on April 30, 2010, the family members and representatives participated in a protest in support of disappeared women after which blankets with the missing women’s faces were placed at the site of the Center for Human Rights of Paso del Norte. On May 9, 2010, the blankets corresponding to Nitza Paola and Rocío Irene Alvarado had disappeared from these offices. 51. Regarding the expansion of provisional measures in favor of the representatives, the State observed that from the events that conformed with the factual basis for the Commission’s request, “no reference c[ould] be found” to the representatives’ situation for whom the request was being lodged. The State added that no concrete facts had been presented to support the motion to expand the measures in favor of these persons, nor was it ever said that any one of them had been the victim “of any act of aggression and/or threat” based on the present matter. Thus, the State found that “the situation of extreme gravity and urgency that [the representatives] [were] liv[ing through] [was] unfounded.” Additionally, the State stressed that Ms. Luz Esthela Castro Rodríguez and the other members of the Women’s Human Rights Center are already beneficiaries of precautionary measures ordered by the Inter-American Commission on June 13, 2008, which “the State has [already] implemented.”43 52. Concerning the additional information on the representatives presented by the Commission (supra Considering 50), the State noted that the alleged situation of violence in the State of Chihuahua and the reference to the representatives’ activities (supra Considering 50(c), 50(d)) constituted information “of a general and imprecise nature,” which held no evident link with the present provisional measures. In relation to the alleged visits on the part of federal police and the military to intimidate various representatives (supra Considering 50(d)), the State requested that the Commission specify the acts of harassment to which these persons were allegedly subjected “[so that they would] be able to provide punctual information on the particulars.” Regarding the events that occurred in the CEDEHM offices and the Center for Human Rights of Paso del Norte (supra Considering 50(e)), the State indicated that the emergency button that had been installed outside the CEDEHM headquarters as part of the framework for precautionary measures granted in their favor (supra Considering 51) had not been activated on April 5, 2010 when the alleged theft took place. In that regard, the State noted that even though the CEDEHM members had not communicated any act that had placed their lives or right to humane treatment in jeopardy, the PGJE had reported that the complaint filed for larceny was submitted to it the next day and “of the right to land for indigenous communities” which culminated in the placing of a bomb at her office, “the shooting of her daughter,” and the murder of her husband on March 1, 2010. 43 The State indicated that the measures implemented as part of the aforementioned precautionary measures to protect the life and integrity of these beneficiaries consisted in: five cellular telephones with encryption capabilities; emergency contact information for municipal, local, and federal police; patrols by the Chihuahua Ministry of Public Safety; an emergency panic button on the outside of the CEDEHM offices under the auspices of the Chihuahua Ministry of Public Safety; tinted glass at the CEDEHM; and a system of closedcircuit cameras and an automatic lock on the main access door at CEDEHM.

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