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Colombia
Information from the Government
39.
On 19 August 2020, 22 September 2021 and 4 January 2022, the Government
transmitted information concerning 462 cases, but the information was considered
insufficient to clarify them.
Cuba
Joint allegation letter and reply
40.
On 16 December 2021, the Working Group transmitted, jointly with other special
procedure mechanisms, an allegation letter concerning the arrest and reported short-term
enforced disappearance of Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, pastor of the Monte de Sion Church in
Palma Soriano, Cuba.10
41.
On 1 March 2022, the Government of Cuba provided a reply to the joint allegation
letter sent on 16 December 2021.11
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Standard procedure
42.
Under its standard procedure, the Working Group transmitted 14 cases to the
Government concerning:
(a)
Go Jong-Hyun, a fisherman from the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 5 June 1968 during a fishing
expedition;
(b)
Yoon-Taek Kim, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by the Coast Guard of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 6 December
1968;
(c)
Seung Ock Kim, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by the Coast Guard of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 21 December
1967 south of the Military Demarcation Line;
(d)
Myeong-Bo Kang, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by agents of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 16 April 1968;
(e)
Jong-Joo Park, a national of the Republic of Korea born in 1927, 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;
(f)
Jong-Seok Choi, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by a patrol boat of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 15 January 1987
on the high seas near the Northern Limit Line, 28 miles northwest of Baengnyeong Island in
the West Sea;
(g)
Su-Young Ahn, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly
abducted by agents of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 28 December 1972 near
the southwest of Baengnyeong Island;
(h)
Noh-Seok Ki, a national of the Republic of Korea, who was allegedly abducted
by agents of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 15 February1974, in the southern
part of the Northern Limit Line near Baengnyeong Island in the West Sea of the Republic of
Korea;
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See CUB 7/2021.
See reply to CUB 7/2021.
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