damage to persons. Such other fact or argument can only be analyzed and decided during the consideration of the merits of a contentious case.3 6. The alleged facts on which the request for expansion of provisional measures filed by the Commission is based, are namely: a) Mrs. Marianela Sánchez Ortiz has been working as the Legal Coordinator of the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory, a non-governmental organization, for 9 years and 8 months. As part of her duties, she makes regular visits to prisons and courts, given that she is one of the main voices in prison-related matters, due to her long track record as a human rights defender of detainees in Venezuela. On several occasions, she has represented the organization before the media denouncing the living conditions of detainees in Venezuela and adopts a leading role when the Director of the organization (Humberto Prado) is unavailable for a particular task; b) Marianela Sánchez Ortiz conducted the investigation into a series of violent facts that occurred at Casa de Reeducación, Rehabilitación e Internado Judicial El Paraiso, known as “La Planta” prison, in the city of Caracas, during the months of April and May 2012. Mrs. Sánchez Ortiz was the main spokeswoman of the organization during the conflict, denouncing the structural causes that had provoked the prison crisis; c) During one of her visits to the premises of “La Planta” prison, Mrs. Sánchez Ortiz would have observed that an unknown man followed her to take her picture without asking questions or identifying himself as member of the press; d) On May 30, 2012, between 11 and 11.30 a.m., four armed men would have approached Hernan Antonio Bolivar, the husband of Mrs. Sánchez Ortiz, whilst he was getting into his car and one of them, pointed a gun at his head, and would have made him get into the vehicle along with another man, while the other two men remained outside the vehicle. Inside the vehicle, the man who was pointing a gun at him, "would have threatened to kill him and his family, if his wife continued denouncing the human rights violations of detainees", and e) On June 22, 2012, at approximately 12.35 p.m., when Mrs. Sánchez Ortiz was returning from the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas, two individuals would have approached her, while another two would have stood in front of the building of the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory headquarters. Furthermore, one of the men would have stood in front of her preventing her from entering the building, while the other man would have said "that’s her". Mrs. Sánchez Ortiz stated that she was afraid, so that she grabbed her briefcase and diary and asked the man to let her pass. He would have looked her up and down in an intimidating manner, and after a few seconds, he moved away, at which moment Mrs. Sánchez Ortiz managed to quickly enter the building. Later on, some colleagues of the OVP would have observed one of the individuals changing his shirt as he walked away. 7. The arguments of the Commission to substantiate their request for expansion of provisional measures, among which it noted that: 3 Cf. Matter of James et al. Provisional Measures with regard to Trinidad and Tobago. Order of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights of August 29, 1998, sixth considering paragraph, and Matter of Martinez Martinez et al. Provisional Measures with regard to Mexico. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of March 1, 2012, seventh considering paragraph. 4