A/HRC/39/45 3. Follow-up procedure 9. The table above shows information received by the Working Group as at 21 June 2018, pursuant to the follow-up procedure adopted by the Working Group at its seventysixth session, held in August 2016. The Working Group is encouraged that a response was received from the source and/or the Government in more than 50 per cent of cases in which follow-up information was sought, and it urges both sources and Governments to keep it updated on the implementation of its opinions. 10. If the Working Group, in accordance with its methods of work and while examining the allegations of violations of human rights in the above opinions, has considered that the allegations could also be dealt with by another special procedure, it has referred such allegations to the relevant working group or special rapporteur within whose competence they fall, for appropriate action.1 During 2017, the Working Group made 119 referrals to other special procedure mandate holders in relation to the 94 opinions adopted. Release of the subjects of the Working Group’s opinions 4. 11. The Working Group notes with appreciation the information received on the release of the following subjects of its opinions during the period from 1 January to 31 December 2017: • Akzam Turgonov (opinion No. 53/2011, Uzbekistan) • Danilo Maldonado Machado (opinion No. 12/2017, Cuba) • Ahmed Mahloof (opinion No. 15/2017, Maldives) • Yon Alexander Goicoechea Lara (opinion No. 18/2017, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) • Musallam Mohamed Hamad Al Barrak (opinion No. 20/2017, Kuwait) • Mario Olivera Osorio (opinion No. 24/2017, Mexico) • Mohamed Serria (opinion No. 30/2017, Egypt) • Omar Nazzal (opinion No. 31/2017, Israel) • Rasha Nemer Jaafar al-Husseini (opinion No. 33/2017, Iraq) • Kamel Eddine Fekhar (opinion No. 34/2017, Algeria) • Önder Celik (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Turhan Günay (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Mustafa Kemal Güngör (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Güray Tekin Öz (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Hakan Kara (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Haci Musa Kart (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Bülent Utku (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Kadri Gürsel (opinion No. 41/2017, Turkey) • Ali Abdul Rahman Mahmoud Jaradat (opinion No. 44/2017, Israel) • Maria Chin Abdullah (opinion No. 50/2017, Malaysia) • Nizar Bou Nasr Eddine (opinion No. 53/2017, Lebanon) • Stella Nyanzi (opinion No. 57/2017, Uganda) • Julio Ferrer Tamayo (opinion No. 64/2017, Cuba) 1 20 See A/HRC/36/38, para. 33 (a).

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