ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF FEBRUARY 25, 2011∗ REQUEST FOR ADOPTION OF PROVISIONAL MEASURES CASE OF DE LA CRUZ FLORES v. PERU HAVING SEEN: 1. The judgment on merits, reparations and costs (hereinafter “the judgment”) delivered in this case by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) on November 18, 2004. 2. The orders of the Inter-American Court of November 23, 2007, and September 1, 2010, on monitoring compliance with judgment in this case. 3. The brief of January 6, 2011, in which the representative of María Teresa De La Cruz (hereinafter “the representative”) submitted a request for provisional measures under Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention) and Article 27 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court1 (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”). The purpose of the request was for the State of Peru (hereinafter “the State” or “Peru”) to “annul all the measures ordered by its judicial, police and administrative bodies to execute the judgment of the Supreme Court of Peru” of November 23, 2009, “that are intended to have adverse affects on” Mrs. De La Cruz Flores, “including, the national and international order to arrest and detain her.” On January 27 2011, the representative presented complementary information concerning this request and on February 11, 2011, withdrew it.” 4. The communications of January 25 and February 4 and 11, 2011, in which the State forwarded its observations on the request for provisional measures submitted by the representative. 5. The briefs of January 21 and February 7 and 15, 2011, in which the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”) presented its observations on the request for provisional measures submitted by the representative. CONSIDERING THAT: 1. Peru has been a State Party to the American Convention since July 28, 1978, and accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court on January 21, 1981. 2. Article 63(2) of the American Convention stipulates that, “in cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court shall adopt such provisional measures as it deems pertinent in ∗ Judge Diego García-Sayán, a Peruvian national, has recused himself from hearing the monitoring of compliance in this case, in accordance with Articles 19(2) of the Statute and 19 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure. 1 Rules of Procedure of the Court approved at its eighty-fifth regular session held from November 16 to 28, 2009.