A/HRC/4/41 page 36 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 11 Multiple replies on some cases N/A General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit N/A N/A N/A 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 164. Communications received on 26 July and 11 September 2006 were considered by the Working Group during the period under review. The Working Group decided that the information was not sufficient to clarify the 11 outstanding cases. Information from sources 165. No information was received from sources regarding outstanding cases. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 166. The majority of cases of disappearance reported to the Working Group occurred between 1985 and 1992 in Quito, Guayaquil and Esmeraldas and concerned persons who were allegedly arrested by members of the Criminal Investigation Service of the National Police. Three of these cases concerned children. Two cases reported in 2004 concerned persons who reportedly disappeared in Guayaquil after being arrested by judicial police agents, and another case regarded a person reportedly disappeared while being transferred from a detention centre in Quevedo to the locality of Buena Fe. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 167. In the past and during the year under review, the Working Group transmitted 26 cases to the Government; of those, 4 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the source, 11 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government and 11 cases remain outstanding. Egypt Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 15 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent under the standard the urgent action procedure procedure 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 0 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 0 Multiple replies on some cases N/A 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 15 Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) N/A