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day by the Office of the Director for Coordination with the Administration of Justice, in which it wrote
that under the Transparency and Access to Public Information Act:
[t]he right of access to public information cannot be exercised with respect to information
prepared or obtained by the legal advisors or attorneys for organs of Government and which, if
made public, might reveal the strategy to be followed in handling or defending an administrativelaw or court case, or any other type of information protected by the professional confidentiality
that an attorney must have with his or her client until the process concludes.
3. (…) inasmuch as no final decision has as yet been made on the question of Mr. Wong Ho
Wing’s extradition under Article 514 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the applicable law would
be Article 17(4) of Law No. 27806, the Access to Public Information Act, under the terms of which
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the right of access to public information cannot be exercised until the process has concluded.”
121. On May 24, 2011, the Constitutional Court delivered its ruling on the remedy exercised
by Mr. Lamas Puccio seeking protection against violation of a constitutionally-protected right, in which
he challenged the ruling declaring his April 14, 2010 petition of habeas corpus to be out of order. The
Constitutional Court’s ruling ordered the Executive Branch to refrain from extraditing Mr. Wong Ho
Wing to the People’s Republic of China:
(…) the Court finds that the People’s Republic of China did not provide necessary and sufficient
guarantees that Mr. Wong Ho Wing’s right to life would be protected. As stated in the Report of
the United Nations Human Rights Council, public opinion is one of the factors that China
considers when deciding whether to apply the death penalty.
Another factor to consider is that in the instant case, Mr. Wong Ho Wing’s extradition would not
be in order, since the principle of reciprocity is not present because the crimes for which his
extradition is sought are not capital offenses in Peru.
Therefore, the Peruvian State must act on its obligation to bring Mr. Wong Ho Wing to trial, as
prescribed in Article 4(a) of the Extradition Treaty between the Republic of Peru and the People’s
Republic of China.
11. The foregoing notwithstanding, some comment is in order concerning Letter N.O. No. 023
2011, dated April 6, 2011, which reports that the Eighth Amendment of the Criminal Code of the
People’s Republic of China has been approved, which introduces changes in that Criminal Code
with regard to the crime of smuggling common merchandise. There is nothing in the case file sub
judice indicating that the change to the Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China has been
officially reported to the Peruvian State via diplomatic channels. Nor is there any mention of
whether the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China recognizes the retroactivity of
criminal law when it works in the accused’ favor.
This Court, therefore, finds that the letter in question cannot be understood and interpreted as a
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guarantee that the death penalty will not be applied in the case of the extraditurus.
122. Justices Álvarez Miranda and Vergara Gotelli cast separate votes indicating that the
petition should be declared unfounded on the grounds that it failed to show the existence of the
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Annex 50. State Report No. 299-2010-JUS/PPES, received at the IACHR on November 11, 2010.
Annex 51. Decision delivered in Case No. 02278-2010-PHC/TC, dated May 24, 2011. Attachment to the State’s
communication of July 12, 2011.