A/HRC/22/45 Russian Federation Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 467 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 4 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Cases sent under Cases sent the urgent action under the procedure standard procedure Government 0 0 4 Non-governmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 0 471 Number of cases on which the Multiple replies on some cases Government has replied Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) 0 N/A 0 Urgent appeal N/A Government response N/A General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter Yes Government response Yes Working Group request for a visit Yes Invitation extended No Standard procedure 327. The Working Group transmitted four newly-reported cases to the Government. 328. These cases concerned Messrs. Magomed Adzhiyev, Ali Dzhaniyev, Yunus Dobriyev, and Yusup Dobriyev, who were allegedly arrested by Russian law enforcement agents in Vasilievsky Ostrov (Vasiliev Island), Line 9 Street, between Bolshoi Prospect and Naberegnaya Street, Saint Petersburg on 25 December 2009. Prompt intervention 329. On 1 March 2012, the Working Group, together with four other Special procedures mechanisms, sent a prompt intervention letter to the Government regarding alleged acts of police harassment against Mr. Anton Ryzhov, a lawyer with the Interregional Committee Against Torture and the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), a solidarity group of which travels to Chechnya on a rotating basis to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances and torture in the region; and Mr. Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Interregional Committee against Torture and founder and President of the JMG. Information from the Government 330. The Government transmitted one communication, dated 27 August 2010, which could not be translated in time for inclusion in the 2010 annual report (A/HRC/16/48). This communication concerned the request for a visit of the Working Group. 331. During the reporting period, the Government transmitted three communications, dated 14 May, 22 May and 22 August 2012. The first two communications concerned the prompt intervention letter and could not be processed in time for inclusion in the present report. The third communication concerned four outstanding cases. The information provided was not considered sufficient for the clarification of the cases. The communication also concerned one case registered under the statistics of Georgia. Information from sources 332. Sources provided information concerning four outstanding cases. 91