ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JANUARY 27, 1993 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF PERÚ PERUVIAN PRISONS CASE The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, composed of the following judges: Héctor Fix-Zamudio, President Sonia Picado-Sotela, Vice President Rafael Nieto-Navia, Judge Alejandro Montiel-Argüello, Judge Hernán Salgado-Pesantes, Judge Asdrúbal Aguiar-Aranguren, Judge also present, Manuel E. Ventura-Robles, Secretary, and Ana María Reina, Deputy Secretary adopts the following Decision: 1. On November 25, 1992, pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Convention" or "the American Convention") and 24 of the Rules of Procedure (hereinafter "the Rules") of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter "the Court"), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission" or "the Inter-American Commission") submitted to the Court a request for provisional measures in Cases 11.015 and 11.048 which are before the Commission and concern the grave situation in the Peruvian prisons of Miguel Castro Castro and Santa Mónica in Lima, Cristo Rey in Ica and Yanamayo in Puno. 2. The Commission's petition is founded upon its President's request to the Government of Perú on August 18, 1992, pursuant to Article 29 of the Commission's Regulations, for the adoption of provisional measures "in relation to those persons deprived of their liberty for allegedly committing terrorist acts." Moreover, the President of the Commission stated that if the necessary measures were not adopted within 10 days, "the request for provisional measures might be presented to the Inter-American Court." 3. The facts the Commission considered in requiring the Government to adopt precautionary measures, and subsequently in asking the court for provisional measures, are the existence of "credible evidence of a grave situation in the Peruvian prisons" Miguel Castro Castro, Santa Mónica, Cristo Rey and Yanamayo, which poses "an immediate danger to the right to integrity of the person of those