A/HRC/13/30 Government concerned Number of urgent appeals Persons concerned United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1 1 man United States of America 1 1 man Uzbekistan 4 27 men Viet Nam 4 2 men, 2 women Yemen 2 1 man, 1 boy Zimbabwe 2 6 men, 1 woman Persons released/information received from 1 woman (source) 28. Sources reported that, from these 844 persons, 65 were released. States reported that two additional persons were freed. The Working Group wishes to thank those States that heeded its appeals and took steps to provide it with information on the situation of the persons concerned, especially the States that released those persons. In other cases, the Working Group was assured that the detainees concerned would be guaranteed a fair trial. 6. Reprisals in relation to Opinions and urgent appeals 29. On 23 February 2009, the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group sent a joint urgent appeal to Uzbekistan regarding Mr. Erkin Musaev, whose detention had been declared arbitrary in Opinion No. 14/2008.14 It was alleged that he was threatened that, if he or his family did not withdraw their petitions or continued to make complaints to international human rights mechanisms or to spread news about the above decision, they would face reprisals. 30. On 29 May 2009, the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group sent a joint urgent appeal to Iran concerning Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi. According to new information received by the Working Group, Ayatollah Boroujerdi wrote a letter to the Secretary-General requesting that international observers be sent to Iran, following which he was reportedly subjected to beatings. 31. On 21 July 2009, the Working Group received allegations that Tin Min Htut and U Nyi Pu were sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment under laws criminalizing the upsetting of public tranquillity and peace, following their organization of 92 other members of parliament to sign a letter to the Secretary-General and the Security Council that criticized the Government of Myanmar and the United Nations itself and which was published on the Internet. B. Country missions 1. Request for visits 32. During 2009, the Working Group was invited to visit on official mission Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Malaysia. It has also received invitations to visit Georgia and the United States of America. 33. The Working Group has also made requests to visit Algeria, Argentina (a follow-up visit), Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, India, Japan, Morocco, Nauru, Nicaragua (a followup visit limited to Bluefields prison), Papua New Guinea, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. 14 GE.10-10294 A/HRC/10/21/Add.1, p. 142. 13