2 6. The June 19, 1998 Order of the Court, wherein it decided the following: 1. To extend the provisional measures ordered for Ms. María Eugenia Cárdenas so long as the risk that necessitated their adoption persists. 2. To extend until September 6, 1998, the provisional measures ordered on behalf of José Daniel Álvarez, Nidia Linores-Ascanio, Gladys López, Yanette Bautista, María Helena Saldarriaga, Piedad Martín, María Eugenia López, Adriana Diosa, Astrid Manrique, Faride Ascanio, Carmen Barrera , Evidalia Chacón, José Publio Bautista, Nelly María Ascanio, Ayda Mile Ascanio, Miriam Rosas Ascanio and Javier Álvarez. 3. To request the State of Colombia to conduct effective investigations and, where appropriate, punish those responsible for the acts that necessitated the adoption of these provisional measures. 4. To request that Colombia forward to the Court, by no later than July 24, 1998, a report on compliance with this order; to request that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights send its observations on that report within one month of the date of notification. 7. The State’s note, dated July 10, 1998, wherein it informed the Court that it was unable to afford protection to Ms. María Eugenia Cárdenas because she was not cooperating with the State. It also stated that it had not been properly advised of a telephone threat that Mr. José Daniel Álvarez had received some days earlier. For those reasons, Colombia petitioned the Court to request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission" or "the Inter-American Commission") "to urge the beneficiaries of the provisional measures to cooperate with the Government in order to enable the latter to more effectively adopt the relevant security measures." 8. The State’s sixth report, dated July 24, 1998, wherein it petitioned the Court to request that Ms. María Eugenia Cárdenas do the essential to cooperate with the State’s plan for her protection. 9. The Commission’s brief, dated August 4, 1998, wherein it requested the Court to expand the provisional measures adopted in the instant case so as to include Mr. Daniel Prado and his family. According to the brief in question, threatening telephone calls had been received at the offices of the Association of DetaineesDisappeared Persons of Colombia (hereinafter "ASFADDES") in Medellín and Popayan. Mr. Prado, an attorney for ASFADDES, had received a condolences card with the following message written in letters cut from newspapers: CAREFUL you are a “Sapo” (delator) and you will die for that. Lord, hear our prayers for the soul of: Dr. Daniel PRADO – Cordially, THE SILENT ASSASIN --- Date of the hunt October 1998. The Commission attached a copy of this letter to its request. 10. The August 6, 1998 Order of the President, wherein he decided: 1. To request the State of Colombia to urgently adopt the measures needed to ensure the life and integrity of Daniel Prado, Estela de Prado, and their daughters Camilla Alejandra and Lina. 2. To request the State of Colombia to investigate the facts denounced by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in its brief of August 4, 1998, and punish those responsible.

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