A/HRC/13/31 Italy 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 allegation 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 General allegations Summary of the allegations 310. Information was submitted by sources concerning obstacles reportedly encountered in the implementation of the Declaration. This information was transmitted to the Government after the Working Group’s eighty-seventh session. 311. It was reported that the Government of Italy was involved in 2003 in a practice of renditions and secret detention. Victims of rendition were generally held in prolonged detention in secret facilities, with no access by the ICRC, no notification to 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. This practice is believed to amount to enforced disappearance. 312. The role of the Government in this practice allegedly included the detention of persons inside its territory and their extrajudicial transfer overseas or to the custody of foreign intelligence agencies or others. 313. According to the information received, airports in Italy were used by planes that transported victims of rendition. Those planes stopped over in those airports during the process of transferring, taking, delivering, or returning detainees from the rendition. It is believed that the use of these planes, without the control and scrutiny of the Government, was essential to facilitate and implement the rendition programme. In some cases, these planes were used to detain individuals in Europe, while in other cases victims of enforced disappearances were transported in and out of Europe. The Government allegedly allowed these planes to land on its territory without adopting any measure to prevent their use for secret detention and rendition. 68 GE.09-17704