A/HRC/4/41 page 56 Mexico2 Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 207 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent under the urgent action the standard procedure procedure 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied See paragraph 259 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 1 Multiple replies on some cases General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 206 Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) N/A Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A N/A Information from the Government 259. The Working Group received two communications from the Mexican authorities, on 30 June and 22 September 2006. The information will be reviewed during the next reporting period. Information from sources 260. No information was received from sources regarding outstanding cases. Clarifications 261. On 15 June 2005, a communication from the Government concerning an outstanding case stated that the subject was confined in a maximum-security Federal Social Rehabilitation Centre. The Working Group decided to apply the six-month rule in this case (see paragraph 11). Since no new observations were received from the source, this case is now considered clarified. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 262. A large number of the cases reported to the Working Group occurred between 1974 and 1981. Of those cases 98 took place in the context of rural guerrilla warfare in the State of Guerrero. Between 1994 and 1997, 111 cases occurred, primarily in the States of Chiapas, and Veracruz. In most cases, the disappearances were attributed to law enforcement agencies and the Army. In 2003, the two reported cases concerned a member of an indigenous organization, allegedly arrested in the State of Chiapas, and a member of the Democratic Revolution Party who was allegedly abducted in the State of Guerrero by agents of the Federal Investigation Agency. 2 In accordance with the practice of the Working Group, Santiago Corcuera did not participate in the decisions relating to this section of the report.