A/HRC/4/41 page 59 Request for a visit 274. Based on the cooperation and progress made in Morocco and recent clarifications, the Working Group decided to withdraw the request for an invitation to carry out a visit. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 275. The majority of the 248 cases the Working Group has transmitted to the Government occurred between 1972 and 1980. Most of them concerned persons who reportedly disappeared because they or their relatives were known or suspected supporters of the Polisario Front. The disappeared persons were reportedly confined in secret detention centres, such as Laayoune, Qal’at M’gouna, Agdz and Tazmamart. Cells in some police stations or military barracks and secret villas in the Rabat suburbs were also allegedly used to hide the disappeared persons. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 276. In the past and during the year under review, the Working Group has transmitted 248 cases to the Government; of those, 46 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the source, 105 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government and 97 cases remain outstanding. Observations 277. The Working Group expresses its appreciation to the Government of Morocco for the information that it has provided and for its efforts to investigate the fate and whereabouts of persons reported to have disappeared in the past. It hopes that this process will continue. Mozambique Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 2 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 0 General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 0 Multiple replies on some cases N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 2 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 278. There was no activity during the period under review. A summary of the situation in the country is in the last report (E/CN.4/2006/56 and Corr.1).

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