ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUGUST 25, 2011 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REGARDING THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL MATTER OF THE URSO B RANC O PRISON HAVING SEEN: 1. The Orders of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) of June 18, 2002, August 29, 2002, April 22, 2004, July 7, 2004, September 21, 2005, May 2, 2008, and November 25, 2009. In the latter the Court decided, inter alia: 1. To reiterate to the State that it immediately continue adopting all measures necessary to effectively protect the life and integrity of all the detainees at the Urso Branco Prison, as well as of all the persons that enter the latter, among them visitors and security agents that offer their services at the same. 2. To reiterate to the State that it carry out the appropriate processes so that the measures for the protection of life and personal integrity be planned and implemented with the participation of the representatives of the beneficiaries and that, in general, it maintain them informed of the progress of their execution. […] 2. The Order of the President of the Court of July 26, 2011, in which it decided to summon the Federal Republic of Brazil (hereinafter “the State” or “Brazil”), the representatives of the beneficiaries (hereinafter “the representatives”), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) to a public hearing on August 25, 2011, “with the objective of having the Court receive their arguments on the provisional measures ordered in the present matter [and] evaluate the need to maintain them in force .”  Judge Leonardo A. Franco informed the Court that, for reasons of force majeure, he would not be present at the deliberation and signing of this Order.