ORDER OF THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS* MARCH 24, 2010. PROVISIONAL MEASURES PRESENTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REGARDING THE REPUBLIC OF PERU WONG HO WING MATTER HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) dated February 24, 2010, and its annexes submitting a request to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) for provisional measures under Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the Convention”) and Article 27 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), requestingthat the Court order the Republic of Peru (hereinafter “Peru” or “the State”) to refrain from extraditing Mr. Wong Ho Wing to the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter “China”) until the bodies of the InterAmerican system issue a final judgment on the complaint presented to the InterAmerican Commission, in keeping with Article 44 of the Convention. 2. The note of February 26, 2010, in which, following the instructions of the Court’s Acting President in this matter (hereinafter the “Acting President”), the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) requested that the State submit the following information by March 3, 2010: a) comments on this request for provisional measures that it considers pertinent; b) a copy of the order of December 8, 2009, issued by the People’s Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China, duly translated into Spanish, and c) any other documentation that it deems pertinent for the Court to consider the Inter-American Commission’s request with all necessary information. Likewise, also following the Acting President’s instructions, the Secretariat requested that the Commission submit the aforementioned order of the People’s Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China, along with its observations on the implications of this ruling with regard to its request for provisional measures, by the deadline indicated. * Judge Diego García-Sayán, of Peruvian nationality, recused himself from this matter, pursuant to Article 19 of the Statute and Article 21 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court, passed in the LXXXV Ordinary Period of Sessions held on November 16-28, 2009, and accepted by the Court. For this reason, Judge García-Sayán ceded the Presidency under the terms of Article 4(2) of the Rules of Procedure to the Vice President of the Court, Judge Leonardo A. Franco, who is the Acting President in this matter.