A/HRC/16/47
adopted during these sessions appear in the table below and the complete texts of Opinions
Nos. 1/2010 to 33/2010 are reproduced in addendum 1 to the present report.
2.
Opinions of the Working Group
9.
Pursuant to its methods of work2, the Working Group, in addressing its Opinions to
Governments, drew their attention to resolutions 1997/50 and 2003/31 of the former
Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council resolution 6/4, requesting them
to take account of the Working Group’s Opinions and, where necessary, to take appropriate
steps to remedy the situation of persons arbitrarily deprived of their liberty and to inform
the Working Group of the steps they had taken. On expiry of the three-week deadline the
Opinions were transmitted to the source.
Table 1
Opinions adopted during the fifty-seven, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth sessions of the
Working Group
Opinion
No.
2
Country
Government’s
reply
Person(s) concerned
Opinion
1/2010
Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya
No
Mr. Jamal Al Hajji.
Detention arbitrary,
categories I, II and III.
2/2010
Iran (Islamic
Republic of )
No
Mr. Shane Bauer,
Ms. Sarah Shourd and
Mr. Joshua Fattal.
Detention arbitrary,
category III.
3/2010
India
No
Mr. Jamali Khan.
Detention arbitrary,
categories I and III.
4/2010
Myanmar
No
Dr. Tin Min Htut and
Mr. U Nyi Pu.
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
5/2010
Israel
No
Messrs. Hamdi al-Ta’mari Detention arbitrary,
and Mohammad Baran.
categories I, II and III.
6/2010
Viet Nam
No
Father Thadeus Nguyen
Van Ly.
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
7/2010
Pakistan
Yes
Messrs. Mubashar Ahmed,
Muhammad Irfan,
Tahir Imran,
Tahir Mehmood and
Naseer Ahmed.
Case filed (para. 17 (a) of
the Working Group’s
methods of work – persons
released).
8/2010
Iran (Islamic
Republic of )
No
Mr. Isa Saharkhiz.
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
9/2010
Israel
Yes
Mr. Wa’ad al-Hidmy.
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
E/CN.4/1998/44, annex I.
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