A/HRC/4/41 page 97 Venezuela Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 10 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent Cases sent under the under the standard urgent procedure action procedure 0 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 2 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government 0 Multiple replies on some cases General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit N/A N/A N/A Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 0 10 Non-governmental sources 0 N/A Discontinued cases 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 472. The Government replied on 16 December 2005 to two cases. One case concerned a Venezuelan man believed to have been arrested by army parachutists. His case was decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2005, which attributed responsibility to the Venezuelan State for the enforced disappearance and the arbitrary detention of the subject and ordered the payment of reparation. The other case concerned a man who allegedly disappeared in 1999. The Government reported that a hearing of the two accused perpetrators (both officers) began on 14 October 2005. The Working Group decided that the information was not sufficient to clarify the cases. Information from sources 473. No information was received from sources regarding outstanding cases. Meetings 474. During the seventy-ninth session, the Working Group met with government representatives to discuss outstanding cases. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 475. Of the 14 cases reported to the Working Group, 3 concerned student leaders who had reportedly been intercepted by security forces in 1991, 1 concerned a businessman arrested by the police in 1991, another concerned a 14-year-old girl who allegedly disappeared in 1993 following a military raid on her residence, and 1 case concerned a person who was allegedly detained in the State of Amazona by members of the Navy infantry.