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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
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