A/HRC/13/31 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 0 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Cases sent under the urgent action procedure Cases sent under the standard procedure 0 0 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 0 Government Nongovernmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 0 0 0 Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6month rule) N/A 0 General allegation Yes Government response Yes Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A General allegations Summary of the allegations 594. Information was submitted by sources concerning obstacles reportedly encountered in the implementation of the Declaration. This information was transmitted to the Government after its eighty-seventh session. 595. It was reported that between 2002 and 2003 the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was involved in a practice of renditions and secret detention. Victims of rendition were generally held in prolonged detention in secret facilities, with no access to the ICRC, no notification to families and no notification of their legal status and rights. There was no oversight of the conditions of detention and the treatment of the detainees. There was also no information about the procedures in place to decide about their detention and its duration. This practice is believed to amount to enforced disappearance and to involve other serious human rights violations, including torture or other ill-treatment. 596. The role of the Government in this practice allegedly included the detention of persons inside its territory and their extrajudicial transfer overseas or to the custody of foreign intelligence agencies or others. 597. Reportedly, national intelligence agencies have also facilitated information, which is likely to have facilitated the illegal apprehension and transfer of a number of individuals. 598. According to the information received, airports in the United Kingdom were used by planes to transport victims of rendition. Those planes stopped over in those airports during the process of transferring, taking, delivering, or returning detainees from the rendition. It is believed that the use of these planes, without the control and scrutiny of the Government, 124 GE.09-17704