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Information from the Government
186. The Government of Japan transmitted three communications to the Working Group,
dated 21 November 2006, 16 March and 26 June 2007. In these communications, the
Government of Japan replied on its one outstanding case of enforced disappearance, concerning
a Japanese national who was allegedly abducted by secret agents of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea in 1977, and was last seen on Japanese territory.
187. The Working Group found that the responses did not contain sufficient information to
clarify the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared persons.
Information from sources
188. No information was received from sources regarding Japan’s outstanding case.
Meetings
189. The Government of Japan met with the Working Group at its eighty-first, eighty-second
and eighty-third sessions to discuss developments connected to its outstanding case and related
cases.
Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding
190. In previous years and during the year under review, the Working Group has transmitted
two cases to the Government, and these cases remain outstanding.
Jordan
Number of
outstanding
cases at the
beginning of
the period
under review
3
Cases transmitted to the Government
during the period under review
Cases sent under
Cases sent under
the urgent action
the standard
procedure
procedure
0
Number of cases on which the
Government has replied
0
0
Cases clarified during the period under
review by:
Government
Non-governmental
sources
0
Multiple replies on some cases
General allegation
Prompt intervention letter
Working Group request for a visit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
0
Number of
outstanding
cases at the
end of the
year under
review
2 (see
paragraph 192)
Number of cases of possible clarification
by Government (6-month rule)
N/A
Government response
Government response
Government response
Information from the Government
191. No information was received from the Government regarding outstanding cases.
N/A
N/A
N/A