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(i)
Yoo-Seok Jung, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by agents of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 15 February 1974, in
the southern part of the Northern Limit Line near Baengnyeong Island in the West Sea of the
Republic of Korea;
(j)
Seung-Un Ahn, a national of the Republic of Korea allegedly abducted by
DPRK agents on 9 July 1995, in front of the main gate of an apartment complex in Yanji,
Jilin Province, People’s Republic of China;
(k)
Hye-Yeong Kim, who was allegedly abducted in April 2009 in Tonghua, Jilin
Province, China, by agents of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea who presumably
acted in concert with the Chinese authorities;
(l)
Gyeong Jae Kim, a national of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
who was reportedly detained on 25 September 2008 by two unknown men and placed in
detention by the Hoeryong Security Agency in North Hamgyong Province. It is believed that
in approximately August 2009, Mr. Kim was transferred to a different detention facility
located in Hwasong, namely Political Prison Camp No. 16;
(m) Cho Ho-pyung, an ethnic Korean man born in Japan on 16 April 1941, and
assumed to have obtained nationality of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, who
was allegedly forcibly disappeared at either the Hamhung University of Medicine of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or at his neighbouring house;
(n)
Byung-tae Kim, a Japanese-Korean man born in Osaka, Japan, who was
allegedly forcibly disappeared from a psychiatric hospital camp known as “Ward 49” in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by officials of the Workers Party of Korea.
43.
In accordance with the Working Group’s methods of work, a copy of the relevant
cases was communicated to the Governments of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Ecuador
Information from the Government
44.
On 13 January 2022, the Government transmitted information concerning five cases,
but the information was considered insufficient to clarify them.
Egypt
Urgent procedure
45.
On 23 December 2021, under its urgent procedure, the Working Group transmitted
one case to the Government concerning Omar Adel Abdelfatah Mohamed Abdelsalam, who
was allegedly arrested on 10 December 2021 at his home by uniformed national security and
police officers and taken to an unknown location.
Standard procedure
46.
Under its standard procedure, the Working Group transmitted two cases to the
Government concerning:
(a)
Ahmed Khalil Abdelmonem Mabrouk, who was allegedly abducted on 11
December 2018 near his house in Al-Barajeel Village, Ossim city centre, Giza Governorate,
by members of the police and security forces, some in plainclothes and others in uniforms,
and taken to an unknown location;
(b)
Ahmed Jamal al-Din Mohamed Taher, who was allegedly arrested on 21
September 2016 near his house in Helwan area, Cairo Governorate, by unidentified men and
taken to an unknown location.
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