ORDER OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
OF MAY 18, 1995
PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
COLOTENANGO CASE
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The resolutory part of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Decision of
December 1, 1994, which establishes:
1.
To extend the provisional measures adopted pursuant to the Decision of June
22, 1994, on the Colotenango Case for a term of six months from today, and to expand
them to include Mrs. Francisca Sales-Martín.
2.
To require the Government of Guatemala to use all the means at its disposal to
enforce the arrest warrant issued against the 13 patrol members charged as suspects in
the case before the Second Trial Court of Huehuetenango involving the criminal acts
which took place on August 3, 1993, in Colotenango.
3.
To request the Government of Guatemala to inform the Court every 90 days
regarding the measures it has adopted to comply with this order.
4.
To request the Commission to inform the Court of any fact or circumstance that
it deems important to the implementation of such measures.
5.
To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit the information it receives
from the Government of Guatemala to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
in order that the latter may submit its observations to the Court within the following 30
days. Likewise, to transmit to the Government of Guatemala any reports it receives
from the Commission in order to have the Government's observations within a similar
period.
6.
To request the Government and the Commission to urge the beneficiaries of the
measures referred to in points 1 and 2 of the Court's decision of June 22, 1994, to
cooperate with the Government in order to enable the latter to more efficiently adopt the
relevant security measures.
7.
Upon expiration of the extended deadline and unless the Court receives credible
information that the circumstances of extreme gravity and urgency continue to prevail,
the measures ordered by the Court shall cease to be in effect.
2.
The reports of the Government of Guatemala received by the Court on March
2 and May 5 of 1995 respectively, as well as the extension of the latter of May 15,
1995, which inform the Court on the measures adopted in compliance with
resolutory part 3 of the Court's Decision of December 1, 1994;
3.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' written observations on
the aforementioned reports, received by the Court on March 31 and May 18 of 1995
in conformity with resolutory part 4 of the Court's Decision of December 1 of the