4 11. On September 6, 1996 Peru informed the Court about the appointment of Mr. Jorge Hawie Soret as agent. 12. On September 19, 1996, the President, at the request of the State, extended the deadline for the appointment of the judge ad hoc until October 8, 1996. On the 4th of the same month and year, Peru appointed Mr. Fernando Vidal Ramírez as Judge ad hoc. 13. On September 20, 1996, the State submitted a brief wherein it filed seven preliminary objections and requested the Court, based on the resulting objections, to arrange for the application file. 14. On October 29, 1996, the Commission submitted a reply to the preliminary objections and requested to Court to underestimate them as a whole. 15. On November 22, 1996, the State requested an extension of the deadline to respond to the application, which was granted until December 20, 1996. On November 26, 1996, the State submitted its reply to said application wherein it requested the possibility of "sending in an additional brief enough documentation to prov[e] its statements". In this connection, on December 3, 1996, the President of the Court granted the extension requested until January 6, 1997. 16. On January 6, 1997, Peru submitted a note related to the offering of evidence and on January 15, 1997, it sent "two leaflets with subversive nuances [entitled Pronouncements and Day of Heroism!] wherein [the] names of Nolberto Durand Ugarte and [Gabriel] Pablo Durand Rivera, appeared as participants who never gave up during the riots" that took place in San Juan Bautista prison, known as El Frontón (hereinafter "El Frontón"), and it also asked the Court to accept said documentation as evidence. 17. On January 22, 1997 the Inter-American Commission submitted some observations to the brief of the State of January 6, 1997, pointing out that it represented "an extension of the application reply filed by Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which does not harmonize with what was foreseen by the Rules of Procedure of the Court, particularly Article 37". 18. On March 18, 1997, the Secretariat, at the request of the Commission, asked Peru to send the following documentation: a list of prisoners delivered by the Chief of Identification of San Juan Bautista Prison to the 2nd Permanent Instruction Judicial Court of the Navy, a resolution of July 17, 1987 issued by the 6th Correctional Court of Lima; besides some majority and minority opinions issued by the Investigating Commission of the Congress of Peru about the facts of June 18 and 19, 1986. On May 19, 1997 the State reported difficulties to find July 17, 1987 decision, caused by a fire which took place in 1993, when files inside the Sixth Correctional Court of Lima were completely destroyed, but it also said it would try to find a copy or submit written proof from the Superior Court of Justice of Lima to confirm destruction of the file. On May 20, 1997, the State submitted the list and requested opinions. Until now, the decision of July 17, 1987 has not been submitted yet. In documentation submitted on January 24, 1999 there is a note dated January 6, 1998 indicating that "the Sixth Court presently has been deactivated, [and] the staff who worked there points out that the Books from 1988 were destroyed during the fire some years ago