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2003/31 and Human Rights Council resolution 6/4, requesting them to take account of the
Working Group’s Opinions and, where necessary, to take appropriate steps to remedy the
situation of persons arbitrarily deprived of their liberty and to inform the Working Group of the
steps they had taken. On the expiry of the three-week deadline the Opinions were transmitted to
the source.
Table 1
Opinions adopted during the forty-eighth, forty-ninth
and fiftieth sessions of the Working Group
Opinion
No.
1/2007
Country
Canada
2/2007
Myanmar
3/2007
Government’s
reply
Yes
Person(s) concerned
Opinion
Ms. Nathalie Gettlife
Case filed (paragraph 17 (a)
of the Working Group’s
methods of work - person
released).
Yes
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
Egypt
No
Mr. Ahmed Ali Mohamed
Moutwala and 45 other persons
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
4/2007
Saudi Arabia
No
Messrs. Faiz Abdel Moshen
Al Qaid and Khaled B.
Mohamed Al Rashed
Detention arbitrary,
categories II and III.
5/2007
Qatar
Yes
Mr. Hamed Alaa Eddine
Chehadda
Case filed (paragraph 17 (a)
of the Working Group’s
methods of work - person
released).
6/2007
Mauritania
No
Mr. Mohamed Sidiya Ould
Ajdoud
Detention arbitrary,
category I.
7/2007
Australia
Yes
Messrs. Amer Haddara,
Shane Kent, Izzydeen Attik,
Fadal Sayadi, Abdullah Merhi,
Ahmed Raad, Ezzit Raad,
Hany Taha, Aimen Joud,
Shoue Hammoud, Majed Raad,
Bassan Raad, and Abdul Nacer
Benbrilsa
Detention not arbitrary.
8/2007
Syrian Arab
Republic
Yes
Messrs. Ayman Ardenli and
Muhammad Haydar Zammar
Mr. Ayman Ardenli: Since
August 2003 until his release:
Detention arbitrary,
category I.
Mr. Muhammad Haydar
Zammar: Detention arbitrary,
category III.
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