A/HRC/16/48 Urgent appeal N/A Government response N/A General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter Yes Government response No Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A Information from the Government 500. The Government transmitted one communication dated 25 September 2009, including information on 13 cases. Based on this information, at its 90th session, the Working Group decided to apply the six-month rule to two cases. For one case, the Working Group sent the information to the source for possible closure. Regarding the remaining cases, the information provided was considered insufficient to clarify them. 501. During the reporting period, the Government transmitted two communications on 5 March and 25 June 2010. 502. In the first, the Government replied to the prompt intervention letter sent on 27 August 2009 regarding the sentence of one year of imprisonment imposed on Camal Bektas. In this communication, the Government transmitted the translation of the judicial decision on this case. 503. In the second communication, the Government transmitted information on six outstanding cases. For five of these cases, the information provided was considered insufficient to clarify them. Regarding the sixth case, the Working Group decided to apply the six-month rule at its ninety-second session. Clarification 504. Following the expiration of the period prescribed by the six-month rule, the Working Group decided to clarify two cases. Prompt intervention 505. On 7 January 2010, the Working Group, jointly with other three special procedures mechanisms, sent a prompt intervention letter to the Government regarding the harassment suffered by Mr. Muharrem Erbey, a human rights defender who works, inter alia, on cases of enforced disappearances. No response was received from the Government regarding this prompt intervention letter. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 506. Since its establishment, the Working Group has transmitted 182 cases to the Government; of those, 49 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the source, 71 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government, and 61 remain outstanding. Observations 507. The Working Group calls upon the Government to sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and accept the competence of the Committee under articles 31 and 32. 109