A/HRC/13/31 General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit Yes Government response No Urgent actions 295. The Working Group sent 17 cases under its urgent action procedure to the Government. The first one, sent on 27 February 2009, concerned Mohammed Gatof Mansour, alias Mohammed Al-Dainy, an Iraqi Member of Parliament, arrested by security forces on a plane and taken away from Baghdad airport in a convoy of vehicles by security forces in February 2009. Another three communications were sent on 12, 19 and 25 May 2009, concerning 16 members of his entourage, Shaker Al Bayati, Alaa Khayr Allah Al Maliki, Haytham Khaled Barbooty, Mahmoud Kareem Fahran, Houssein Gattouf Mansoor, Mohamed Hussein Ghadban, Odey Hassan Mansoor, Hashem Kareem Ibrahim, Omar Ibrahim Jasem, Rahman Ahmed Kahrem, Abbas Kazem Khamis, Mahmoud Maksoud, Farkad Jama Taha Yassine, Ali Abdel Taha Yassine, who were arrested by security forces on different occasions. No response was received from the Government. Standard procedures 296. The Working Group transmitted one newly-reported case to the Government. It concerned Alla Al Dain Abdul Kariem Shakir Salah, last seen at the Fox Brigade Police Checkpoint, in Al Sadiyia District, Baghdad in July 2007. Information from the Government 297. The Government of Iraq transmitted three communications to the Working Group, dated 10 July 2008, 25 June, and 15 October 2009. The first and third communications concerned outstanding cases. The information provided was considered insufficient for clarification. The second communication was not translated in time for inclusion in this report. Information from sources 298. The Working Group received information from sources on seven cases. Clarification 299. Following the information received by sources, the Working Group decided to clarify five cases. Meetings 300. Representatives of the Government met with the Working Group at its eighty-ninth session to discuss developments connected to outstanding cases. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 301. Since its establishment, the Working Group has transmitted 16,544 cases to the Government; of those, 28 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by sources, 107 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government, and 16,409 remain outstanding. GE.09-17704 65