A/HRC/4/41 page 44 Honduras Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 129 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent under the urgent action the standard procedure procedure 1 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 125 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 5 Multiple replies on some cases General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit Yes N/A N/A Yes 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 125 Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) 5 Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A Yes Urgent actions 202. The Working Group transmitted one case to the Government under its urgent action procedure concerning the disappearance of Jorge Ruiz, who was travelling from Tegucigalpa toward Cocoa when he was reportedly arrested by five agents from the Direction of Criminal Investigation. Information from the Government 203. The Government provided information on 28 September 2006 on the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. The information could not be translated by the United Nations translation services in time for consideration by the Working Group for inclusion in the present report. 204. The Working Group reviewed government replies concerning 125 cases. In 118 cases, the Working Group decided that the information provided was not sufficient to consider the cases clarified and decided to retransmit these cases to the authorities. In five others, the Working Group decided to apply the six-month rule (see paragraph 12). Information from sources 205. The Working Group received new information from sources regarding 20 outstanding cases of disappeared persons which had taken place in the 1980s. The information detailed the efforts carried out by the families of the victims to learn the whereabouts of their disappeared relatives. Clarifications 206. Based on the information received from the Government, the Working Group decided to clarify the five cases mentioned in paragraph 204 following the expiration of the six-month rule (see paragraph 11). In all cases the deaths of the subjects were confirmed and the families received compensation from the Government.

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