United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/WGEID/102/1
Distr.: General
7 May 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Post-sessional document
102nd session (3–7 February 2014)
I. Introduction
1.
The present document reflects the communications and cases examined and other
activities by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at its 102nd
session, held from 3 to 7 February 2014.
II. Communications
2.
Between its 101st and 102nd sessions, the Working Group transmitted eight cases
under its urgent action procedure to Bahrain (4), Bangladesh (2), Mexico (1) and Pakistan
(1).
3.
At its 102nd session, the Working Group decided to transmit 87 newly reported
cases of enforced disappearance to 11 States. The Working Group also clarified three cases,
in Bahrain and Sri Lanka. Of the three cases, one was clarified on the basis of the
information provided by the Government, and two on the basis of information provided by
sources.
4.
Between its 101st and 102nd sessions, the Working Group, following its prompt
intervention procedure, transmitted, jointly with other special procedures mechanisms,
three communications, to El Salvador (2) and Thailand (1). The Working Group also
transmitted, jointly with other special procedures mechanisms, 10 urgent appeals
concerning persons who had been arrested, detained, abducted or otherwise deprived of
their liberty or who had been forcibly disappeared or were at risk of disappearance in
Algeria, Bahrain, China, Egypt, the Russian Federation, the Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine
and the United Arab Emirates.
5.
At its 102nd session, the Working Group also reviewed two general allegations
concerning Algeria and Sri Lanka.
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