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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.
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