A/HRC/16/48 Number of cases on which the Government has replied Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) 0 0 N/A Urgent Appeals N/A Government response N/A General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter Yes Government response Yes Working Group request for a visit Yes Government response Yes 2 Standard procedures3 44. The Working Group transmitted 11 newly reported cases to the Government. The majority concerned persons who allegedly disappeared between 1994 and 1995, in El Aouna and Jijel. Most disappearances are attributed to the National Gendarmerie. Information from the Government 45. The Government transmitted five communications dated 14 and 25 May 2010, 8 and 10 June, and 12 November 2010. The first includes replies to prompt intervention letters sent on 29 September 2009 and 5 January 2010. The second includes a reply to a prompt intervention letter sent by the Working Group on 19 April 2010. The third concerned timelines for the submission of information. In the fourth communication, the Government informed the Working Group that the request for additional information and documentation by the Working Group on outstanding cases had been forwarded to the authorities in charge of the civil registry. In the fifth communication, the Government informed the Working Group that it would not be in a position to forward all supporting documents which were requested concerning outstanding cases; however, the Government proposed that the Working Group could travel to Algiers to consult the above-mentioned documents and meet with the families of those allegedly disappeared but found alive. Prompt intervention 46. On 5 January 2010, the Working Group sent a prompt intervention letter to the Government regarding the alleged harassment suffered by relatives of a disappeared person to accept a presumption of death certificate. 47. On 19 April 2010, the Working Group, together with two other Special Procedures mechanisms, sent a second prompt intervention letter to the Government concerning the alleged dispersion, by the use of force, of a group of relatives of disappeared people who were peacefully demonstrating in front of the Ministry of Justice on 11 April 2010. On 24 August 2010, the Working Group, together with three other Special Procedures mechanisms, sent a new communication to the Government concerning a prohibition imposed on mothers of disappeared persons to assemble peacefully on 4, 11 and 18 August 2010, and the repression suffered by the mothers and others demonstrating on 11 August 2010. 48. On 14 May 2010, the Government replied to a prompt intervention letter sent on 29 September 2009, regarding the alleged harassment of families of victims of enforced 2 3 See para. 51. See annex V for the list of names of the newly reported cases of disappeared persons. 19