A/HRC/13/31 Mexico* Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 10 Cases clarified during the period under review: 3 Cases sent under the urgent action procedure Cases sent under the standard procedure 6 4 211 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 211 Government Nongovernmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 1 2 218 Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6month rule) N/A 0 General allegations 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 Urgent actions 337. The Working Group transmitted six communications under its urgent action procedure. On 19 February 2009, the Working Group transmitted two cases to the Government concerning Raúl Lucas Lucía and Manuel Ponce Rosas who, on 13 February 2009, were arrested by police officers in a secondary school in Tecoanapa, State of Guerrero. 338. On 2 April 2009, the Working Group transmitted three cases to the Government concerning the minors Diana Bernal Hernández, Julio Castañeda Bernal and Adriana Castañeda Bernal, whose fate and whereabouts remain unknown since December 2008. 339. On 28 April 2009, the Working Group transmitted one case concerning Víctor Alejandro Robles Mora, who was abducted by police officers near Nayarit. Standard procedures 340. The Working Group transmitted four newly-reported cases to the Government. They concerned Arturo Tellez Moncada, arrested by municipal police officers in Pachuca de Soto, State of Hidalgo, on 5 April 2008; Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sanchez and Edmundo Andres Reyes Amaya, arrested by the military and the police on 25 May 2007 in Oaxaca, and Jose Francisco Paredes Ruiz, arrested by agents of the Secretary of the Interior on 22 September 2007, in Colonia la Soledad. * In accordance with the practice of the Working Group, Santiago Corcuera did not participate in the decisions relating to this section of the report. GE.09-17704 75

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