5.6 In the specific case of Communication No. 1953/2010, the authors contend that six years after their filing of the original complaint for enforced disappearance with the police, the authors had still received no feedback on whether an investigation was being carried out and whether their case had been given a specific number.

He did not, however, see this as a reflection of significant change in the government's policy in this area as he was still receiving information on other cases in which authorization to leave had been refused. Such is the case of Mrs. Nydia Cartaya Medina and her four daughters who have not been given authorization to leave the country since the time when her husband was given asylum in the United States in 1985.