A/HRC/13/31 Information from the Government 341. The Government transmitted four communications dated 8 August 2008 and 26 February, 1 September, and 16 October 2009. In the first communication, information was transmitted concerning excavations carried out in Atoyac de Alvarez. 342. In the second communication, the Government transmitted information on the fate of two disappeared persons. These two cases were clarified by sources. 343. On the third, the Government replied to the communication sent by the Working Group concerning four persons, including one minor, informing of their fate. 344. The last communication could not be translated in time for inclusion in this report. Information from the National Human Rights Institution 345. In a communication dated 18 November 2008, the National Commission on Human Rights provided information regarding 210 outstanding cases which was considered insufficient to clarify them. In one case, the Working Group decided to apply the six-month rule. Information from sources 346. Sources provided information on two cases. Clarification 347. Following the information received by sources, the Working Group decided to clarify two cases. 348. Following the expiration of the six-month rule, the Working Group decided to clarify one case. Communications from the Working Group 349. The Working Group transmitted three urgent communications to the Government. The first concerned Miguel Gama Habif and Israel Ayala Ramírez who, on 17 March 2009, were arrested by soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The second communication concerned José Alfredo Arroyo Juárez, Samuel Teroga Rodríguez, Pablo Domínguez Montiel and the minor Daniel Rueda Becerril who were arrested by an off-duty police officer on 18 April 2009, in Cuernavaca, Morelos. The third, sent jointly with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, regarded the alleged enforced disappearance of Santiago, Victoriano and Alicio Ponce Lola, who were abducted on 1 July 2009, by members of the Army. In the same communication, the situation of the attacks suffered by Margarita Martín de las Nieves and Modesta Laureano Petra was also addressed.. Prompt intervention 350. On 10 March 2009, the Working Group sent a joint communication together with three other special procedures mechanisms, regarding the threats and acts of intimidation suffered by the families of two victims of enforced or involuntary disappearances, who were found dead in February 2009. 351. On 9 July 2009, the Working Group sent jointly with one special procedures mechanism, a communication regarding the attacks suffered by other family members of victims of enforced or involuntary disappearances, who were found dead in February 2009. 352. On 8 September 2009, a prompt intervention letter was jointly sent with two other special procedures mechanisms, regarding the threats and acts of intimidation suffered by 76 GE.09-17704

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