Purpose.- The purpose of the protection action shall be the direct and effective protection of the rights recognized in the Constitution and international human rights treaties, which are not protected by the actions of habeas corpus, access to public information, habeas data, for non-compliance, extraordinary protection and extraordinary protection against decisions of indigenous justice.

La acción de protección tendrá por objeto el amparo directo y eficaz de los derechos reconocidos en la Constitución y tratados internacionales sobre derechos humanos, que no estén amparados por las acciones de hábeas corpus, acceso a la información pública, hábeas data, por incumplimiento, extraordinaria de protección y extraordinaria de protección contra decisiones de la justicia indígena.

Precautionary measures shall proceed when the judge becomes aware, through any person, of a fact that imminently and seriously threatens to violate a right or has violated a right. A violation shall be considered serious when it may cause irreversible damage or due to the intensity or frequency of the violation. They shall not proceed when precautionary measures exist in administrative or ordinary proceedings, when related to the execution of judicial orders, or when filed within an extraordinary protection action.

"Requisitos.- Las medidas cautelares procederán cuando la jueza o juez tenga conocimiento de un hecho por parte de cualquier persona que amenace de modo inminente y grave con violar un derecho o viole un derecho.
Se considerará grave cuando pueda ocasionar daños irreversibles o por la intensidad o frecuencia de la violación.
No procederán cuando existan medidas cautelares en las vías administrativas u ordinarias, cuando se trate de ejecución de órdenes judiciales o cuando se interpongan en la acción extraordinaria de protección de derechos.
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The habeas corpus action seeks to protect the liberty, life, physical integrity, and other related rights of a person deprived or restricted of liberty by a public authority or by any person, including: 1. Not to be deprived of liberty unlawfully, arbitrarily, or illegitimately, protection that includes the guarantee that detention always proceeds by written and reasoned order of a competent judge, except in cases of flagrante delicto; 2. Not to be forcibly exiled, banished, or expatriated from national territory; 3. Not to be forcibly disappeared; 4. Not to be tortured or treated in a cruel, inhuman, or degrading manner; 5. Where a foreign national, even before having applied for refuge or political asylum, not to be expelled and returned to the country where they fear persecution or where their life, liberty, integrity, or security would be at risk; 6. Not to be detained for debts, except in the case of child support obligations; 7. To the immediate release of a person under prosecution or convicted whose release a judge has ordered; 8. To the immediate release of a person under prosecution where pretrial detention has lapsed after six months for offenses punishable by imprisonment and one year for offenses punishable by reclusion; 9. Not to be held incommunicado or subjected to treatment demeaning to human dignity; 10. To be brought before the competent judge or tribunal immediately, and no later than twenty-four hours after arrest.