United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/WGEID/103/1 Distr.: General 25 July 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Post-sessional document* 103rd session (7–16 May 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 103rd session, held from 7 to 16 May 2014. II. Communications 2. Between its 102nd and 103rd sessions, the Working Group transmitted 40 cases under its urgent action procedure, to Bahrain (2), Cambodia (1), China (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (3), Indonesia (1), Pakistan (18), the Syrian Arab Republic (1), Thailand (1), the United Arab Emirates (5) and Yemen (2). 3. At its 103rd session, the Working Group decided to transmit 81 newly reported cases of enforced disappearance to 15 States. The Working Group also clarified 23 cases, in Bahrain (1), China (2), Egypt (1), Morocco (1), Sri Lanka (1), the Syrian Arab Republic (2), and the United Arab Emirates (15). Two cases were clarified on the basis of information provided by the Governments and 21 on the basis of information provided by sources. 4. Between its 102nd and 103rd sessions, the Working Group, following its prompt intervention procedure, transmitted, jointly with other special procedure mechanisms, five communications, to Bangladesh (1), Guatemala (1), Pakistan (1) and Sri Lanka (2). The Working Group also transmitted, jointly with other special procedure mechanisms, five 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 China, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates. * The annex to the present document is reproduced as received, in the language of submission only. GE.14-09743 (E) *1409743*

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