A/HRC/27/48 4. Requests for review of opinions adopted 25. The Working Group considered the concerned Governments’ requests for review of the following opinions: opinion No. 46/2012 (Guatemala), opinion No. 62/2012 (Ethiopia) and opinion No. 37/2012 (Spain). After carefully and closely examining the requests for review, the Working Group rejected the requests for review, in accordance with paragraph 21 of its methods of work (A/HRC/16/47, annex, and Corr.1). 5. Reprisal against a subject of an opinion of the Working Group 26. The Working Group expresses its concern regarding the continued detention under house arrest of Marìa Lourdes Afiuni Mora, the subject of its opinion No. 20/2010 (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), who was arrested in 2009 for ordering the conditional release of Eligio Cedeño, the subject of the Working Group’s opinion No. 10/2009 (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela). The Working Group considers the action against Ms. Afiuni as a measure of reprisal. It calls on the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to immediately release Ms. Afiuni and to provide her with effective reparations. 6. Communications (urgent appeals and other letters) 27. During the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013, the Working Group sent 110 urgent appeals to 37 countries concerning 680 individuals. Urgent appeals were sent to the following countries: Angola (1); Azerbaijan (2); Bahrain (4); Bangladesh (4); Belarus (1); Cambodia (1); China (10); Colombia (1); Egypt (7); Equatorial Guinea (3); India (2); Iran (Islamic Republic of) (13); Iraq (5); Israel (2); Italy (1); Kazakhstan (1); Mexico (1); Morocco (1); Myanmar (9); Nigeria (3); Oman (1); Panama (1); Saudi Arabia (6); Somalia (1); State of Palestine (1); the Sudan (5); Syrian Arab Republic (1); Tajikistan (1); Tunisia (1); Turkey (3); Ukraine (1); United Arab Emirates (3); United States of America (1); Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2); Viet Nam (5); Yemen (3) and Zimbabwe (1). The full text of the urgent appeals can be consulted in the joint reports on communications.1 28. In conformity with paragraphs 22 to 24 of its methods of work (A/HRC/16/47, annex, and Corr.1), the Working Group, without prejudging whether a detention was arbitrary, drew the attention of each of the Governments concerned to the specific case as reported, and appealed to them to take the necessary measures to ensure that the detained persons’ rights to life and to physical integrity were respected. 29. When the appeal made a reference to the critical state of health of certain persons or to particular circumstances, such as failure to execute a court order for release, the Working Group requested the Government concerned to take all necessary measures to have the person concerned released. In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/2, the Working Group integrated into its methods of work the prescriptions of the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council relating to urgent appeals and has since applied them. 30. During the period under review, the Working Group also sent two letters of allegation to Nigeria and Sudan, pursuant to the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council. 1 14 For urgent appeals sent from 1 December 2012 to 28 February 2014, see A/HRC/23/51, A/HRC/24/21, A/HRC/25/74, A/HRC/26/21.

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