The note added that “[i]n addition, the extradition proceedings with regard to Wong Ho
Wing have not concluded because, pursuant to article 515 of the new Code of Criminal
Procedure, it is the Peruvian Government that takes the final decision on the extradition
by means of a Supreme Decision issued with the agreement of the Council of Ministers,
following a report of the Official Commission on Extraditions and Prisoner Transfers.”
In this regard, the note ends by indicating that: “[i]n a decision of February 12, 2009,
the 56th Criminal Court of Lima ordered the temporary suspension of the extradition
procedure against the Chinese citizen, Wong Ho Wing, until the habeas corpus
proceeding had concluded.”36
Thus, the State cited three reasons to support its position on the inadmissibility of the
petition; namely, the ongoing processing when the petition was lodged of an application
for habeas corpus filed by the petitioner himself; the processing of the extradition
procedure, also at that time, and, lastly, the suspension of the procedure by a court
order.
C. Those relating to the Admissibility Report
The Admissibility Report of November 1, 2010, indicates that “the presumed victim first
argued the failure to comply with the legal and constitutional requirements for
admission of the extradition request throughout the advisory proceeding decided in the
final instance by the Supreme Court of Justice on January 27, 2010”; [s]econd, he
submitted two applications for habeas corpus against the members of the Second
Transitory Criminal Chamber and of the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the
aforementioned Supreme Court, pointing to alleged defects in the advisory proceeding
and an alleged inadequate evaluation of the guarantees provided by the Government of
the People’s Republic of China concerning the non-application of the death penalty,” and
added that “[i]n addition, the presumed victim filed a preventive application for habeas
corpus against the President of the Republic and the Council of Ministers, which has
been pending a final decision on constitutional injury from the Constitutional Court since
July 14, 2010.”
The Admissibility Report also adds that “[b]ased on the foregoing considerations, the
[Commission] consider[ed] that the presumed victim [had] exhausted the available
remedies under domestic law aimed at rectifying the alleged irregularities in the
advisory proceeding in which the final decision was taken by the Permanent Criminal
Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice on January 27, 2010.” Thus, the Commission
concluded that, “[c]onsequently, the requirement established in Article 46(1)(a) of the
American Convention has been met.”
First, attention should be drawn to the fact that the Admissibility Report refers to facts
and/or judicial actions that took place after the petition had been lodged and to the
corresponding observations of the State as grounds for the decision to admit the
petition. In other words, it follows its consistent practice of determining whether the
domestic remedies had been exhausted prior to this report, and not whether they had
been exhausted prior to the petition.37
36
See also paras. 18 and 22 of the Judgment.
37
Cf. para. 19 of the Judgment.
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