A/HRC/13/31 General allegations 70. 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. 71. It was reported that in 2002, the Government of Azerbaijan was involved in a practice of renditions and secret detention. The victims of rendition were held in prolonged detention in secret facilities, with no access to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), no notification to their 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. The role of the Government in this practice allegedly included the detention of persons inside its territory and their extrajudicial transfer overseas. This practice is believed to amount to enforced disappearance. 72. The Working Group regrets that no response was received from the Government. Observations 73. The Working Group notes that the Government has signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and calls upon the Government to ratify it and accept the competence of the Committee under articles 31 and 32. Bahrain 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 allegations Yes Government response No Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A Urgent actions 74. According to the Working Group’s methods of work, the Government of Bahrain received a copy of the case concerning Mr. Abdullah Madjed Sayah Al Nuaimy, who GE.09-17704 19