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Permanent Mission requested that the opinion be withdrawn from the website of the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.
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