A/HRC/13/31 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 0 Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6month rule) N/A 0 General allegation Yes Government response No Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A General allegations Summary of the allegations 440. Information was submitted by sources concerning obstacles reportedly encountered in the implementation of the Declaration. This information was transmitted to the Government after the Working Group’s eighty-seventh session. 441. According to the information received, between 2001 and 2005 the Government of Romania was involved in a practice of renditions and secret detention. Victims of rendition were generally held in prolonged detention in secret facilities, with no access to the ICRC, no notification to families and no notification of their legal status and rights. There was no oversight of the conditions of detention and the treatment of the detainees. There was also no information about the procedures in place to decide about their detention and its duration. This practice is believed to amount to enforced disappearance. 442. According to the information received, Romania allowed secret detention facilities in its territory. 443. It was also reported to the Working Group that airports in Romania were used by planes that transported victims of rendition. Those planes stopped over in those airports during the process of transferring, taking, delivering, or returning detainees from the rendition. It is believed that the use of these planes, without the control and scrutiny of the Government, was essential to facilitate and implement the rendition programme. In some cases, these planes were used to detain individuals in European territory, while in other cases victims of enforced disappearances were transported in and out of European space. The Government allegedly allowed these planes to land on its territory without adopting any measure to prevent their use for secret detention and rendition. 444. According to reports received, the Government of Romania was reluctant to investigate thoroughly allegations of enforced disappearance connected to renditions by claiming confidentiality on national security or state secrecy. The Government reportedly failed to undertake effective, independent and impartial investigation into the role of state officials and the use of state territory in connection with enforced disappearance. Reportedly, investigations and determinations of human rights complaints in cases of rendition and secret detention were blocked by the Government. No remedies have been provided for the victims and their families, which includes, in some cases, the establishment of the fate and whereabouts of people who have disappeared. 445. 94 The Working Group regrets that no response was received from the Government. GE.09-17704