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• Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé (opinion No. 15/2018, Equatorial Guinea)
• Ghasem Hamedani, conditional release (opinion No. 21/2018, Australia)
• Lorent Gómez Saleh and Gabriel Vallés Sguerzi (opinion No. 24/2018,
Colombia/Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of))
• Abdulrahman bin Omair Rashed al Jabr al Nuaimi (opinion No. 29/2018, Qatar):
conditional release on 24 January 2018
• Mohamed Ould Ghadde (opinion No. 33/2018, Mauritania)
• Salah Hammouri, conditional release (opinion No. 34/2018, Israel)
• Mohammed Hamid Ali Abdullah Al Jabouri, Mohammed Nehme Abbas Mahmoud
Al Jabouri, Omar Ali Najim Rsan Al Abadi, Mazen Ahmad Sattar Hasan Al Obaidi,
Buraq Abdel Ilah Jassim Mohamad Al Habsh, Abdul Razak Abdul Rahman Hasan
Al Dulaimi and Ismail Nasif Jassim Al Mashhadani, conditional release of 7
individuals (opinion No. 38/2018, Iraq)
• Juan Pedro Lares Rangel (opinion No. 41/2018, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of))
• Ahmet Caliskan, conditional release (opinion No. 43/2018, Turkey)
• Raudel Gómez Olivas, conditional release (opinion No. 53/2018, Mexico)
• A minor (whose name is known by the Working Group) (opinion No. 73/2018,
Israel)
• Andrew Craig Brunson (opinion No. 84/2018, Turkey)
13.
The Working Group expresses its gratitude to those Governments that undertook
positive actions and released detainees. However, it regrets that various Member States
have not cooperated in implementing the opinions and urges them to do so urgently.
5.
Reactions from Governments concerning previous opinions
14.
During the reporting period, the Working Group received several reactions from
Governments concerning its previous opinions.
15.
Opinion No. 4/2015 (Senegal) concerning Karim Wade: in response to the Working
Group’s follow-up letter dated 21 December 2018, the Government explained that Mr.
Wade had been pardoned by presidential decree and did not have to serve his sentence.
16.
Opinion No. 1/2016 (Islamic Republic of Iran) concerning Zainab Jalalian: by note
verbale of 19 December 2017, the Government reported that Ms. Jalalian was currently
serving her life sentence in Khoy prison and that her legal rights were being fully respected.
17.
Opinion No. 85/2017 (Rwanda) concerning Frank Rusagaram, Tom Byagamba and
François Kabayiza: the Government indicated that it was not aware of the communication
and therefore provided a late reply in February 2018 rejecting all of the allegations, and
stating that the subjects had been arrested, detained and tried in accordance with Rwandan
law.
18.
Opinion No. 90/2017 (Mauritania) concerning Amadou Tidjani Diop, Ahmed
Hamar Vall, Hamady Lehbouss, Mohamed Daty, Balla Touré, Moussa Biram, Khatry
Rahel, Mohamed Jaroulah, Abdallahi Matala Saleck and Abdallah Abou Diop: on 15
March 2018, the Government explained that the detention was legal, the procedure had
been respected and that some of the individuals had been acquitted.
19.
Opinion No. 10/2017 (Saudi Arabia) concerning Salem ibn Abdullah Hussain Abu
Abdullah: the Government provided a reply and contested the allegations.
20.
Opinion No. 11/2018 (Pakistan and Turkey) concerning Mesut Kaçmaz, Meral
Kaçmaz and two minors: in a letter dated 4 May 2018, the Government of Pakistan
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