Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights* of February 3, 2010 Provisional Measures Regarding Peru Matter of Ramírez-Hinostroza et al. HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order issued by the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “Inter-American Court”, the “Court” or the “Tribunal”) of July 22, 2005 as well as the Orders issued by the Inter-American Court on September 21, 2005, February 7, 2006, July 4, 2006 and May 17, 2007. By means of the last Order, the Tribunal decided, inter alia: 1. To order the State to maintain the measures it might have adopted and to adopt, forthwith, such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and personal integrity of Mr. Luis Alberto Ramírez-Hinostroza, his wife Susana Silvia Rivera-Prado, and his three daughters: Yolanda Susana Ramírez-Rivera, Karen Rose Ramírez-Rivera and Lucero Consuelo RamírezRivera, granted by Order of September 21, 2005. 2. To extend the scope of the measures and to order the State to adopt, forthwith, such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and personal integrity of Messrs. Raúl Ángel Ramos De la Torre and Cesar Manuel Saldaña-Ramírez, Mr. Ramírez-Hinostroza’s counsels. 2. The briefs of July 6 and October 17, 2007, May 2 and December 19, 2008 and February 9 and 17, March 31, May 20 and August 24, 2009, as well as other additional briefs, by means of which the Republic of Peru (hereinafter, the “State” or “Peru”) informed on: a) the protective measures adopted in relation to the beneficiaries; b) the investigation into the facts that gave rise to the adoption of the provisional measures, and c) the investigations conducted against Mr. Ramírez Hinostroza and his detention in a penitentiary center. Moreover, it requested the rescission of the provisional measures. 3. The briefs of June 29, July 13 and December 21, 2007, August 14 and December 22 and 24, 2008 and March 20 and October 24, 2009, among others, by means of which the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures (hereinafter, the * Judge Diego García-Sayán, a Peruvian national, disqualified himself from hearing the instant matter, in accordance with Articles 19 of the Court’s Statute and 21 of the Rules of Procedure, approved in its LXXXV Ordinary Period of Sessions, held from November 16 to 28, 2009, which was accepted by the Court. Therefore, Judge García-Sayán handed over the Presidency, under the terms of Article 4(2) of the Rules of Procedure, to the Vice-President of the Tribunal, Judge Leonardo A. Franco, acting President in this matter.