ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 11, 1997 PROVISIONAL MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF PERU LOAYZA TAMAYO CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The May 30, 1996 brief presented by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission”), in which it submitted to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”), in accordance with Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention”) and 24(1) of the rules of Procedure of the Court, at that time in force, a request for provisional measures in the Loayza Tamayo Case pending before the Court. In this brief, the Commission requested the Court to order the State of Peru (hereinafter “Peru”) to “remove the solitary imposed on María Elena Loayza Tamayo on April 9, 1996, and to return her to Pavilion ‘A’ of the Maximum Security Women’s Penitentiary of Chorrillos, to the same conditions she had prior to her transfer.” 2. The Order of the President of the Court of June 12, 1996, in which it: Request[ed] that the Government of the Republic of Peru adopt forthwith such measures as [were] necessary to effectively ensure the physical, psychological and moral integrity of Ms. María Elena Loayza-Tamayo, so that any provisional measures that the InterAmerican Court may take [could] have the requisite effect. 3. The Order of the Court of July 2, 1996, in which it ordered: 1. To ratify the Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of June 12, 1996. 2. To call once more upon the Government of the Republic of Peru to take, on behalf of Ms. María Elena Loayza-Tamayo, all provisional measures necessary for the effective safeguard of her physical psychological and moral integrity. … 4. The observations presented by the Commission on September 12, 1996 which reiterated its request to the Court to require Peru to remove the solitary confinement imposed on Ms. María Elena Loayza Tamayo since her health has deteriorated as a result of the fact that she was submitted to a degrading and inhuman regime of living, caused by her being in solitary confinement and by being locked up during 23 and a half hours a day in a humid and cold cell measuring approximately 2 meters by 3 meters with not direct ventilation, where the beds are made of cement, a latrine and a sink….The cell did not have direct light; the only light came in dimly and indirectly by fluorescent bulbs from the hallways.