A/HRC/7/4 page 14 Government concerned Number of urgent appeals Persons concerned Thailand 2 60 men, 90 boys Tonga 1 Undetermined Tunisia 3 11 men, 1 woman Ukraine 1 1 man United Arab Emirates 1 1 man United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2 2 men United States of America 2 2 men Uzbekistan 6 5 men, 1 boy Viet Nam 4 14 men, 1 woman, 1 boy Yemen 5 10 men Zimbabwe 4 116 men, 1 woman Persons released/Info received from 1 (Source) 24. Governments reported that 19 persons had been released. Sources reported the release of 127 persons. The Working Group wishes to thank those Governments that heeded its appeals and took steps to provide it with information on the situation of the persons concerned, especially the Governments that released those persons. In other cases, the Working Group was assured that the detainees concerned would receive fair trial guarantees. B. Country missions 1. Request for visits 25. The Working Group has been invited to visit Italy, Malta, Mauritania, Senegal and the United States of America, although no concrete dates have yet been established. The Government of Malta has suggested that the visit take place during the months of March or April 2008. During its forty-eighth session, the Chairperson of the Working Group held meetings with representatives of the Government of Japan in order to examine the possibility of visiting that country during 2008. 26. During its fiftieth session, the Working Group also held meetings with representatives of the Governments of Mauritania and the United States to discuss possible dates for visits in the first semester of 2008. The Working Group has also asked to visit Colombia and Sierra Leone, two countries which, in spite of having extended an open formal invitation to all the thematic mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, have not yet replied to the Working Group’s requests. It has also made requests to visit Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, India, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Turkmenistan. The Working Group decided during its fiftieth session to request an invitation for a visit to Egypt, Malaysia, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.