A/HRC/22/44 8. At its sixty-fifth session held from 14 to 23 November 2012, the Working Group adopted its Deliberation No. 9 on the definition and scope of arbitrary deprivation of liberty in customary international law (the full text of the deliberation is included in the annex to the present report). A. 1. Handling of communications addressed to the Working Group during 2012 Communications transmitted to Governments 9. Hyperlinks to a description of the cases transmitted and the contents of the replies of Governments can be found in the respective opinions adopted by the Working Group (see A/HRC/22/44/Add.1). 10. During its sixty-third, sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions, the Working Group adopted 69 opinions concerning 198 persons in 37 countries. Some details of the opinions adopted during these sessions appear in the table below and the hyperlinks to the complete texts of opinions Nos. 1/2012 to 69/2012 are contained in addendum 1 to the present report. 2. Opinions of the Working Group 11. Pursuant to its revised methods of work (A/HRC/16/47, annex), the Working Group, in addressing its opinions to Governments, drew their attention to resolutions 1997/50 and 2003/31 of the former Commission on Human Rights and resolutions 6/4 and 15/18 of the Human Rights Council, requesting them to take account of the Working Group’s opinions and, where necessary, to take appropriate steps to remedy the situation of persons arbitrarily deprived of their liberty and to inform the Working Group of the steps they had taken. On the expiry of the two-week deadline, the opinions were transmitted to the source. Opinions adopted during the sixty-third, sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions of the Working Group GE.12-18935 Opinion No. Country Government’s reply Person(s) concerned Opinion 1/2012 Egypt Yes Wael Aly Ahmed Aly Detention arbitrary, categories I and III 2/2012 Panama No Ángel de la Cruz Soto Detention arbitrary, category III 3/2012 Israel No Khader Adnan Musa Detention arbitrary, categories I and III 4/2012 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Yes Shin Sook Ja, Oh Hae Won and Oh Kyu Won Detention arbitrary, category I and III 5/2012 Philippines Yes Five children (names known by the Government) The separation of the minors from their parents does not constitute arbitrary deprivation of liberty 6/2012 Bahrain Yes Abdulhadi Abdulla Alkhawaja Detention arbitrary, categories II and III 5