A/HRC/36/37 20. By its note verbale of 14 June 2016, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted a late reply to the regular communication dated 12 February 2016 concerning Bahareh Hedayat (opinion No. 2/2016). 21. By its note verbale of 14 June 2016, the Government of Israel submitted a late reply to the regular communication dated 9 November 2015 concerning a minor (whose name is known by the Working Group) (opinion No. 13/2016). 22. By its note verbale of 8 July 2016, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations at Geneva requested OHCHR to provide an official translation of opinion No. 14/2016 into Russian, after which the Government would consider it in due course (opinion No. 14/2016). 23. By its letter received on 7 September 2016, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted a late response in the case of Mohammad Hussein Rafiee Fanood (opinion No. 25/2016). 24. By its notes verbales of 28 October, 3 November and 23 November 2016, the Government of Argentina submitted updates on the judicial process concerning Milagro Sala and confirmed receipt of the advanced unedited version of the opinion (opinion No. 31/2016). 25. By its email dated 16 November 2016, the Permanent Mission of Bahrain to the United Nations at Geneva indicated that, for technical reasons, they had not received the initial communication of allegations on the case of Zainab Al-Khawaja and requested an extension of the deadline to reply. By its note verbale dated 5 December 2016, the Government of Bahrain objected to the adoption of the opinion (opinion No. 25/2016). 26. In a note verbale of 16 November 2016, the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations at Geneva argued that it had received neither the original communication concerning Hamo Hassani nor the advanced unedited version of opinion No. 26/2016. The Permanent Mission requested that the opinion be withdrawn from the website of the Working Group until a reply from the Government of Morocco had been received (opinion No. 26/2016). 6. Requests for review of opinions adopted 27. The Working Group considered the requests for review of the following opinions: • Opinion No. 19/2016, concerning Mauro Vay Gonon and others, adopted on 27 April 2016; • Opinion No. 7/2016, concerning Abdullah Ahmed Mohammed Ismail Alfakharany et al, adopted on 19 April 2016; • Opinion No. 54/2015, concerning Julian Assange, adopted on 4 December 2015; • Opinion No. 53/2015, concerning two minors, adopted on 2 December 2015; • Opinion No. 52/2015, concerning Yara Refaat Mohamed Sallam, adopted on 4 December 2015; • Opinion No. 28/2015, concerning Abdullah Fairoz Abdullah Abd al-Kareem, adopted on 3 September 2015; • Opinion No. 24/2015, concerning Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, adopted on 2 September 2015. 28. After examining the requests for review, the Working Group decided to maintain its opinions on the basis that none of the requests met the criteria outlined in paragraph 21 of its methods of work. 14

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