ORDER OF THE INTERAMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS  OF FEBRUARY 13, 2013 PROVISIONAL MEASURES WITH REGARD TO VENEZUELA MATTERS OF CERTAIN VENEZUELAN PRISONS THE PENITENTIARY CENTER OF THE CENTRAL OCCIDENTAL REGION (URIBANA PRISON) HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the InterAmerican Court” or “the Court”) of February 2, 2007, in the matter of the Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental Region (Uribana Prison), in which it decided, inter alia: 1. To require the State to adopt forthwith and definitively all such provisional measures as are necessary and effective to prevent loss of life and harm to the physical, mental and moral integrity of all persons deprived of liberty in the Uribana Prison, all persons who might be interned in this penitentiary center in the future, those who work there, and all visitors. 2. To require the State, in addition to the measures to be implemented immediately ordered in the preceding operative paragraph, to adopt the pertinent measures to adapt the situation described to the applicable international standards for the treatment of persons deprived of liberty, in particular: (a) to confiscate the weapons in the hands of the inmates; (b) to reduce overcrowding and improve detention conditions; (c) to provide sufficient trained staff to ensure adequate and effective control, custody and surveillance of the Penitentiary Center; (d) to separate male inmates from female inmates; (e) to separate prisoners who are being tried from those who have been convicted, and (f) to establish a system of periodic monitoring of detention conditions. […] 2. The Orders of the Inter-American Court of November 24, 2009, in the matters of the Monagas Judicial Detention Center (“La Pica”); the Penitentiary Center of the Capital Region Yare I and Yare II (Yare Prison); the Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental Region (Uribana Prison), and the Capital Detention Center El Rodeo I and El Rodeo II; of May 15, 2011, in the matters of the Penitentiary Center of Aragua “Tocorón Prison” and of the Ciudad Bolívar Judicial Detention Center “Vista Hermosa Prison,” as well as of September 6, 2012, in the matter of the Penitentiary Center of the Andean Region, in which it decided to joinder the processing of these matters and to establish that, thereafter, the joint provisional measures would be known as the “Matters of certain Venezuelan prisons.”  Judge Alberto Pérez Pérez advised the Court that, for reasons beyond his control, he would be unable to attend the deliberation and signature of this Order.